Researchers get to bottom of how body repairs DNA
DNA molecules that hold our genetic code and are essential to our health and well-being get a lot of abuse for all the good they do us.
Radiation, toxic chemicals, ultraviolet light and other factors cause damage and mutations in the molecules something like 20,000 times a day, University of Illinois researcher Robert Pugh noted recently.
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