How Adrenal Cancer Forms: Dysfunctional Telomeres Can Trigger Cancer Mutations

Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 22:35 in Biology & Nature

When telomeres -- the bits of DNA at the end of chromosomes -- become dysfunctional, it can trigger cancer, researchers have found. The study was done in a mouse model that targeted the extremely rare adrenal cancer.

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