Misreading of damaged DNA may spur tumour formation

Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 14:42 in Biology & Nature

The DNA in our cells is constantly under assault from oxygen, the sun's radiation and environmental stresses. Most of the time, our cells can repair the damage before it gets copied into a permanent mutation that could lead to cancer...

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