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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Putting the sea into cancer therapy

Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010803-01

Published

3 August 2001

Under normal circumstances DNA mutations occurring in a cell are fixed by the cells own DNA repair mechanisms. These include nucleotide excision repair (NER), which removes damaged sections of DNA and replaces them with the correct sequence. In August Nature Medicine, Yuji Takebayashi and colleagues from the US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland demonstrate a new cell-killing mechanism mediated by NER that can be exploited to improve cancer therapy (Nature Med 2001, 7:961-966).

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