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Study find potential new cancer therapeutic strategy

24 July 2015

NDM researchers have discovered a novel DNA recycling mechanism that normally protects cells, but which could potentially be turned against certain cancer cells.

In a study published in Nature, the lead author Dr Skirmantas Kriaucionis described how their study uncovered 'loopholes' in the recycling of modified DNA bases that can be exploited for cancer intervention.