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September 18, 1995 7:00 AM UTC

The Cambridge, Mass., company and collaborators published the discovery that CDC25 phosphatase enzymes can serve as oncogenes.

As reported in Science, high levels of the enzymes keep cell division going. The enzymes normally serve to instruct cells to duplicate DNA and enter mitosis, in a pathway that involves cyclin-dependent kinases and the known oncogenes ras and raf. ...