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Nature Cell Biology 10, 113–115 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/ncb0208-113

Telomeric RNA enters the game

B|[eacute]|atrice Horard & Eric Gilson

One of the major questions in telomere research is how telomeres protect the extremities of linear chromosomes from being recognized and processed as double-strand breaks. The current view is that the protective functions of telomeres rely on telomere-specific DNA conformations, higher-order chromatin organization, as well as telomere-associated proteins (reviewed in ref.