A needle in a haystack: How does a broken DNA molecule get repaired?
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology have discovered a key element in the mechanism of DNA repair. When the DNA double helix breaks, the broken end goes searching for the similar sequence and uses that as a template for repair.
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