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Protein prevents DNA damage in the developing brain and might serve as a tumor suppressor

Development, Memory, Neuroscience, Psychology neuroscience, psychology

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have rewritten the job description of the protein TopBP1 after demonstrating that it guards early brain cells from DNA damage. Such damage might foreshadow later problems, including cancer.

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