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Alcohol by-product destroys blood stem cells

Published on 30 August, 2012

Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology have found that stem cells in the body’s ‘blood cell factory’ – the bone marrow – are extremely sensitive to the main breakdown product of alcohol, which causes irreversible damage to their DNA… This article is no longer available from the source website: Cambridge News 30 August 2012