Experiments from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Aziz Sancar show how a common molecular tool for DNA labeling also has anticancer properties worthy of further investigation, especially for brain cancers.
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Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have made the surprising discovery that a molecule called EdU, which is commonly used in laboratory experiments to label DNA, is in fact recognized by human cells as DNA damage, triggering a runaway process of DNA repair that is eventually fatal to affected cells, including cancer cells.
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