Penn researchers identify new protein important in breast cancer gene's role in DNA repair

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 07:29 in Biology & Nature

For years, researchers have known that under normal conditions, the breast cancer protein BRCA1 orchestrates the repair of damaged DNA, but the details of just how BRCA1 moves to the damaged site and recruits the right nuclear repairmen for DNA restoration remains a mystery...

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