Mice engineered with rare kidney disease provide new insights about how cells repair broken DNA

Mutations in many genes involved in a certain type of DNA repair cause a rare anemia, but one such gene has been shown to cause kidney disease instead. By eliminating this unique gene in mice, scientists hope to show how and why it has such different effects. More »
Source: The Rockefeller University Newswire - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Tags: Science News Agata Smogorzewska DNA cross-link repair FAN1 kidney disease Laboratory of Genome Maintenance Source Type: news