Items Tagged ‘DNA’

August 8, 2012

How Senescent Cells Spur Aging and Cancer

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In 1999 JAN M. VAN deursen and his colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., wanted to see whether mangled chromosomes cause cancer. So they engineered mice deficient in a protein that helps to maintain chromosomal integrity. The rodents’ coils of DNA were duly deranged. Surprisingly, though, the animals were not particularly tumor-prone. Instead […]

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Tags: chromosomes, DNA, Scientific American, tumors