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Medicine’s Peter Scacheri discusses “long-ignored” extrachromosomal DNA

The curious DNA circles that make treating cancer so hard

Chemical and Engineering NewsPeter Scacheri, the Gertrude and Donnelly Hess Professor in Oncology at the School of Medicine, discussed whether “long-ignored” extrachromosomal DNA can help us understand how cancer evolves resistance to drugs—whether the clues help us outfox cancer itself.