A mutation that frustrates DNA repair likely contributes to Fanconi anemia

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 11:14 in Mathematics & Economics

(PhysOrg.com) -- After more than a century of technological refinements, zippers still get stuck. So do the molecular machines that routinely unzip the double helix of DNA in our cells after billions of years of evolution, and the results can be lethal.

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