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G-quadruplex

Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer

03 August 2020

Four-stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – have been shown to play a role in certain types of breast cancer for the first time, providing a potential new target for personalised medicine, say scientists at the University of Cambridge.

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Crystal structure of parallel quadruplexes from human telomeric DNA.

Quadruple helix form of DNA may aid in the development of targeted cancer therapies

12 September 2016

Researchers have identified the role that a four-stranded version of DNA may play in the role of cancer progression, and suggest that it may be used to develop new targeted cancer therapies.

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