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To: Michael_Michaelangelo
DNA mutates, and it's a good thing it does.

Don't disagree, you'll be banished to the cornfield. (Apologies to Rod Serling)

6 posted on 08/25/2004 10:28:09 AM PDT by Old Professer (If they win, it will be because we've become too soft.)
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To: Old Professer
Purposeful mutations good. Random mutations bad.

Researchers find clues about how antibodies specialize

From the article:

"The AID-RPA interaction must be regulated to bring about the specificity of the mutation," Chaudhuri says. "If this regulation is impaired for some reason, then the B cell would incur a lot of random mutations and that might lead to tumors."

8 posted on 08/25/2004 10:35:27 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
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