New study bolsters beliefs about DNA repair

Monday, November 17, 2008 - 16:28 in Biology & Nature

Aucott et al. report the first in vivo experiments on the heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) family, which sidles up to silent DNA. The results, to be published in the 17 November issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, add to the evidence that the different versions of the proteins help cells fix broken DNA...

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