New information about DNA repair mechanism could lead to better cancer drugs

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 16:35 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shed new light on a process that fixes breaks in the genetic material of the body's cells. Their findings could lead to ways of enhancing chemotherapy drugs that destroy cancer cells by damaging their DNA.

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