Xiaoxiang Fan, Katja Paul-Konietzko, Aashish Soni & George Iliakis We previously reported that cells exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation (IR) in the G2-phase of the cell cycle activate a checkpoint that is epistatically regulated by ATM and ATR operating as an integrated modu...
In an interesting parallel, the NIH recently announced they reached an agreement with the family ofHenrietta Lacksabout how future studies using the HeLa cell genome will be evaluated. HeLa cells originated from a cancerous tumor removed from Henrietta in 1951. The HeLa cells contain her gen...