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Light bulb moment for understanding DNA repair switches

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Advances in understanding how cells repair DNA damage could improve future cancer treatments.

University of Birmingham researchers have uncovered answers that provide the detail to explain two specific DNA repair processes that have long been in question.

The discovery of the twisting switch resolves a long-standing question about how the DNA repair protein RNF168 , which has a tendency to cause uncontrolled signalling, is switched off.

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