A study published in Genome Research and reviewed in The Scientist explains that researchers at the Ohio State University have determined a new way that HPV might lead to cervical cancer development. Using the supercomputing power available at Ohio State, researchers did extensive genome sequencing, which allowed them to see “in vivid detail that HPV can damage host-cell genes and chromosomes at sites of viral insertion,” said co-senior author David Symer, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
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