Liquid-liquid phase separation in DNA double-strand break repair.

Cancer Biol Med

Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China.

Published: September 2023

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