DNA integrity is always under attack from environmental agents like skin cancer-causing UV rays. How do DNA repair mechanisms detect and repair damaged DNA, and what happens when they fail? Defects in ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/3575727 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3575727 Copy URL ...
Feast your eyes on the blind Somalian cavefish, which has—like mammals—mysteriously lost the ability to use light to fix damaged DNA. Hectonichus / Wikimedia Commons Pale, shrunken and blind, the ...
DNA repair can be divided into a set of mechanisms that identify and correct damage in DNA molecules. There are two general classes of DNA repair; the direct reversal of the chemical process ...
What do blind cavefish, dinosaurs, and sunburnt humans have in common? A lot more than you may realize, according to a thought-provoking new study. New research published today in Current Biology ...
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