While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...
The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine is working to raise awareness of an often hidden gene mutation that’s ...
Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on ...
From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...