Researchers Uncover Genes Linked to DNA Damage Response

Jan 04, 2002

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 — Researchers at Boston's Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Germany's Max Planck Institute have discovered 23 genes in Caenorhabditis elegans that are connected to the DNA damage response, a mechanism implicated in many types of human cancer.

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