The chemical composition of normal DNA at the end of chromosomes does not differ from that of damaged and broken DNA within chromosomes. New findings hint at how the DNA-repair machinery distinguishes the two.
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Azzalin, C., Lingner, J. Damage control. Nature 448, 1001–1002 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/4481001a
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