Scientists decipher missing piece of first-responder DNA repair machine
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 18:56
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Scripps Research Institute have uncovered the role played by the least-understood part of a first-responder molecule that rushes in to bind and repair breaks in DNA strands, a process that helps people avoid cancer.