First glimpse of end-of chromosome repair in real time
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 09:41
in Biology & Nature
Maintaining the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, allows cells to continuously divide and achieve immortality. In a new study, researchers have developed a first-of-its- kind system to observe repair to broken DNA in newly synthesized telomeres, an effort which has implications for designing new cancer drugs.