The most frequent DNA lesions (8-oxoguanine, thymine glycol, dihydrothymine, dU) (De Bont and van Larebeke, 2014) are removed from the genome by the BER (Kim and Wilson, 2012) (Figure 1). This repair ...
A researcher has made a discovery that alters our understanding of how the body's DNA repair process works and may lead to new chemotherapy treatments for cancer and other disorders. Researchers ...
Damage to your DNA is unavoidable. Every day our cells are bombarded by gene-splitting UV radiation or chemical carcinogens. Regular water inside our bodies can cause DNA damage. DNA damage is as ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Base excision repair (BER) of DNA damage in irradiated THP1 human leukemic cells was stimulated by pretreating the cells with exogenous ...
Their work details how cells repair damaged DNA and preserve genes. And now three scientists — Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar — have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their work ...