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The basic discoveries made by
this year's Laureates will have broad applications
within many fields of biology and medicine. The
discoveries are important in understanding how
chromosomal instability develops in cancer cells,
i.e. how parts of chromosomes are rearranged, lost or
distributed unequally between daughter cells (figure
to the left). The findings in the cell cycle field
are about to be applied to tumour diagnostics, and
the discoveries may in a long term perspective open
new possibilities for cancer therapy.
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