DNA Replication’s Got a Good Beat, and Cancer Can Dance to It

If cancer had ever been interviewed on American Bandstand about a new song, it might have echoed countless teenagers by saying, “It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it”—but only if a slow number had just been played. Cancer, it happens, has two left feet when it comes to DNA replication, which must proceed at a slow pace if cancer is to avoid tripping itself up."We found that cancer cells copy their DNA rather slowly, because they have abnormal genomes and replicati