Cells use many complex genetic repair backup systems to fix DNA damage and remain healthy throughout their lives.

It may be possible to use this data to design better drugs that trigger the body's DNA repair mechanisms. "This study is just the beginning," Adebali said. "Our findings open the door to exploring how ...

Researchers have shed new light on how tissues in the body are repaired ... in tissue repair," Harris concludes. "For now, they reveal an important genetic response to cell death that could ...

Defects in DNA repair underlie a number of human genetic diseases that affect a wide variety of body systems but share a constellation of common traits, most notably a predisposition to cancer ...