Cancer's dangerous renovations to our chromosomes revealed (IMAGE)

University of Virginia Health System

Cancer's dangerous renovations to our chromosomes revealed

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Chongzhi Zang, PhD, a computational biologist with the University of Virginia's Center for Public Health Genomics, has revealed the dangerous changes cancer makes to our chromosomes to build itself a comfortable home.

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Courtesy Zang lab

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