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BRIT1 allows DNA repair teams access to damaged sites
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Like a mechanic popping the hood of a car to get at a faulty engine, a tumor-suppressing protein allows cellular repair mechanisms to pounce on damaged DNA by overcoming a barrier to DNA access.
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DNA differences may influence risk of Hodgkin disease
Mar 09, 2009 |
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A new analysis has found that certain variations in genes that repair DNA can affect a person's risk of developing Hodgkin disease. Published in the April 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer ...
Researchers uncover process involved in DNA repair
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Every day people are exposed to chemical and physical agents that damage DNA. If it isn't repaired properly, this damage can lead to mutations that in some circumstances can lead to the development ...
Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said Monday.
Yale scientists to study DNA repair in cancer cells
Oct 25, 2007 |
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Yale School of Medicine researchers have received $8.4 million to study how cancer cells mend their own chromosomes and DNA after damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy.
Two proteins found on telomeres control DNA damage response pathways
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Aug 10, 2007 |
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No sooner had cells evolved linear chromosomes than they had a life-threatening problem to solve. To the machinery that repairs broken DNA, chromosome ends look a lot like breaks in need of mending, so they ...
Stopgap DNA repair needs a second step
May 04, 2009 |
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One can have a dream, two can make that dream so real, goes a popular song. Now a Weizmann Institute study has revealed that it takes two to perform an essential form of DNA repair.
Chromatin remodeling complex connected to DNA damage control
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Aug 09, 2007 |
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When molecular disaster strikes, causing structural damage to DNA, players in two important pathways talk to each other to help contain the wreckage, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report ...
DNA repair mechanisms relocate in response to stress
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Like doctors making house calls, some DNA repair enzymes can relocate to the part of the cell that needs their help, a collaborative team of scientists at Emory University School of Medicine has found.
2 heads are better than 1: 2 dysfunctional DNA repair pathways kill tumor cells
Apr 13, 2007 |
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Individuals who inherit two mutant copies of any one of about 12 genes that make the proteins of the Fanconi Anemia (FA) pathway develop FA, which is characterized by increased incidence of cancer and bone marrow failure, ...
Scientists identify specific enzymes that make meningitis hard to fight
Feb 22, 2007 |
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Two enzymes in meningitis bacteria which prevent the body from successfully fighting off the disease, and make the infection extremely virulent, have been identified in new research published today.
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