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Damage control

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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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Figure 1: Protection of telomeres from the DNA-damage response.

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  1. Claus M. Azzalin and Joachim Lingner are at the Institut Suisse de Recherche Expérimentale sur le Cancer (ISREC), 'Frontiers in Genetics' National Center for Competence in Research, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1066, Epalinges s/Lausanne, Switzerland. joachim.lingner@isrec.ch,

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