Findings suggest how cancer cells can become resistant to DNA damage-inducing treatments
Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
An international team of scientists led by UC Davis researchers has discovered that DNA repair in cancer cells is not a one-way street as previously believed. Their findings show instead that recombination, an important DNA repair process, has a self-correcting mechanism that allows DNA to make a virtual u-turn and start over.