Early fruitfly embryos have an unusual means of halting the division of any nuclei containing damaged DNA. A key component of this mechanism has now been identified, and might have implications for cancer.
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Raff, J. Genome maintenance. Nature 423, 493–495 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423493a
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