UGA researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzy...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 07/09/2008 - 23:00

(University of Georgia) Researchers at the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences have shown a mechanism that explains how two essential components of human telomerase -- normally active only in early prenatal development but turned back on during cancer growth -- are "recruited" from distinct sites in the cell to the telomere, an area at the end of a chromosome that normally protects it from destruction.

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