Clearing jams in copy machinery
19th Sep 2005, 22:06 GMT
Rockefeller University scientists show that a protein crucial for the accurate copying of DNA during cell division serves as a toolbelt from which the correct proteins are retrieved to enable DNA replication in the face of DNA damage.
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