If you contain a soft spot for unsung heroes,you'll love a DNA repair protein called XPG. Scientists from the U.
S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered that XPG plays a previously unknown and critical role helping to preserve genome stability in human cells. Their findings also raise the possibility that the protein helps prevent breast, ovarian, or other cancers associated with faulty BRCA genes.
Source: phys.org