Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprint
Failure of DNA repair leads to the tumorigenic transformation of a regenerating blastema in Drosophila imaginal discs
Tanroop Kaur, Ada Repiso, Ying Liu…·Enrique Martı́n-Blanco
This paper shows that repeated tissue regeneration in Drosophila imaginal discs can lead to tumorigenesis without oncogene activation or tumor suppressor loss, highlighting a link between chronic injury and cancer.
DOI 10.1101/2025.10.24.684460