Cancer gene scores a mouse knockout. (mice with inability to synthesize protein coded by ATM gene may help researchers understand the fatal condition of ataxia-telangiectasia in humans)(Biomedicine)(Brief Article) From: Science News | Date: August 3, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Science Service, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Small, infertile, beset with neurological problems, and prone to deadly cancer within their first few months of life, the mice in Anthony Wynshaw- Boris' laboratory at the National Center for Human Genome Research in Bethesda, Md., are an unenviable lot. When subjected to ionizing radiation, the mice die from cancer much more readily than normal mice. The sad state of these rodents stems from their inability to synthesize the protein encoded by a gene called ATM.

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