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This sticky end is a clue to cancer’s causes

How do healthy cells turn cancerous? Their  DNA gradually accumulates errors. Most of these errors aren’t important, but occasionally they stop the cell from working properly. They might cause a cell to grow out of control – and this can lead to cancer.
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4 Sep 2017

How some rediscovered 75-year-old research on maize helps us understand cancer

Barbara McClintock published a paper describing the breakage-fusion-bridge (BFB) cycle in 1939. She…
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30 Dec 2013
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