Protein made by breast cancer gene purified

Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

A key step in understanding the origins of familial breast cancer has been made. Researchers have purified, for the first time, the protein produced by the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2 and used it to study the oncogene's role in DNA repair.

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