New knowledge about DNA repair can be turned into cancer inhibitors

Posted by on June 22, 2016 6:46 pm
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A molecular mechanism that reads so-called epigenetic information and boosts repair of lesions in our DNA has been discovered by scientists. This knowledge can be used to develop new targeted cancer treatment in which ‘inhibitor molecules’ can prevent cancer cells from repairing themselves, they report.

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