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    "Centre de Biologie Intégrative de Toulouse, University of Toulouse, CNRS, CBI , Toulouse 31400 ,",
    "Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool , Liverpool L69 7BE ,"
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  "title": "The 7SK small nuclear ribonucleoprotein links the cell responses to transcription and replication stress by promoting replication fork reversal and homologous recombination",
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