New study bolsters beliefs about DNA repair

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 12:21 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 Nov. 17 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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