Bap! Wrecker of DNA (IMAGE)

University of North Carolina Health Care

Bap! Wrecker of DNA

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Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the first time, UNC School of Medicine scientists created a method for effectively mapping that DNA damage at high resolution across the genome.

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Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care)

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