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Medicine's Peter Scacheri notes that tumors harbor bits of extrachromosomal DNA that can drive malignancy

MEDIA | April 5, 2021
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Cancer may be driven by DNA outside of chromosomes

The Scientist: Peter Scacheri, professor at the School of Medicine, noted that in the last decade, researchers have come to realize that tumors harbor bits of extrachromosomal DNA that can drive malignancy.