Jan. 15, 2025 — While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows.

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specific diseases or human ancestral populations could also reduce the impact of [AI virtual cell] models." Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022, covering science ...

Nature asked the world’s largest health-research funders what they are doing to study a life stage experienced by half of humanity. Here is what some of them told us.

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"This was very unexpected," study co-author Nicholas Navin, a professor at the University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center, told Live Science in an email. "We would have classified these cells ...

Now though, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a different approach to combating the cells that cause cancer. By using a digital model of ...