Broken DNA Must Find Right Partners Quickly Amid Repairs
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
A gene called ATM suppresses DNA break-induced chromosome translocations, which are present in some cancers and predict the success or failure of therapies for those cancers. The research, described in this week's issue of Nature, was performed at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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