FORT LAUDERDALE: Previously, it was thought the ability to repair DNA was the same throughout the body, but new research overturns this idea and shows organs vary in the extent to which they carry out a type of DNA repair called nucleotide excision repair.
This was the finding of a new study where the team investigated a type of DNA repair called nucleotide excision repair (NER). It is one of five types of DNA repair used by mammalian cells, primarily to repair damage caused by a range of cancer-causing agents, including ultraviolet (UV), products of organic combustion, metals and oxidative stress…