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Alcohol can cause irreversible genetic damage to stem cells, says study

Published on 5 January, 2018

Link between drinking and cancer clarified by study – led by KJ Patel’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division – which indicates alcohol causes cancer by scrambling DNA in cells, eventually leading to mutations. More…