When a mother cells leaves a daughter cell a dubious bequest—under-replicated and lesion-prone DNA—it may propagate through subsequent generations of dividing cells, giving rise to cancer. To prevent inherited DNA damage from culminating in disease, a daughter cell has one last chance to put right what went wrong the generation before. By sequestering under-replicated DNA […]
Original Article: Inherited DNA Damage Gets Time Out, Second Chance for Repair