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In normal skin cells, the body's daily clock for a key protein (BMAL1) works well, but in certain skin cancer cells, that clock barely works at all — suggesting the clock breaks down as skin cells turn cancerous.

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The study found that the daily rhythm of the BMAL1 gene works well in precancerous skin cells but is disrupted in cancerous ones, which supports the idea that the body's internal clock breaks down as skin cancer develops.

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