Protein function repairing genetic damage in spermatogenesis identified
Monday, July 9, 2018 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have unmasked the functioning of a protein involved in DNA repair, ATR, in the meiotic recombination process which takes place during the development of spermatocytes -- sperm precursor cells -- and how inhibiting this protein causes anomalies which block spermatogenesis.