Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 8th, 2006
This trend article about Wayne State University, U.S., is an immediate alert from NewsRx to identify developing directions of research.
Study 1: Researchers believe that cancer risk increases with age due to haploinsufficiency in DNA polymerase beta.
"This study uses a base excision repair (BER)-deficient model, the DNA polymerase heterozygous mouse, to investigate the effect of BER deficiency on tumorigenicity and aging. Aged beta-pol(+/-) mice express 50% less beta-pol transcripts and protein (p<.05) than aged beta-pol(+/+) mice, showing maintenance of the...
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