Researchers identify new pathways to target breast cancer: A pathway helping the Breast Cancer protein BRCA1 repair damaged DNA has been identified by University of Queensland researchers in a study that will inform future targeted therapies. Professor Robert Parton, Professor Alpha Yap and Dr Kerrie-Ann McMahon from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) identified an association between two proteins that are lost in cancer cells – the well-known BReast CAncer gene 1 (BRCA1) and a new player – cavin3. “In healthy cells, BRCA1 repairs DNA damage and suppresses tumour formation, but cells with mutations in their BRCA1 genes struggle to keep up with DNA repairs, which

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