A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...
Our genomic DNA is continuously damaged by endogenous factors such as reactive oxygen species, and also by environmental factors such as ultraviolet light, radiation, and chemicals. Failure to repair ...
On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...
XPC protein acts as a sensor to detect various abnormalities in the DNA structure. The faithful repair of DNA is ensured by using the basal transcription factor TFIIH and XPA protein to verify the ...