Published in Science (ed. 30 August 2024) is the paper by Melody Di Bona, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, a master's degree graduate in Biotechnology and PhD in Physics at the University of Genoa.
Using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy, the research has shown that free radicals are the cause of micronucleus collapse and that the use of antioxidants reduces these collapse events but also the chromosomal rearrangements that underlie the metastasising of tumours termed 'aggressive'.

This discovery is considered by the scientific community to be a major breakthrough in understanding the process that leads to tumour formation and development, so much so that the research was featured on the cover of one of the most prestigious and influential international scientific journals.

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