While DNA gets a lot of attention, it isn’t the only potential target for direct damage from radiation, nor is it necessarily the most important one. Proteins are also subject to damage ...

Skin cancer is caused by DNA damage in skin cells. The most common source of that damage is ultraviolet radiation from the ...

In humans, the DNA damage from excessive radiation is linked to diseases including various cancers and cardiovascular disease. Tardigrade aka “water bears” can withstand an incredible amount ...

Researchers have uncovered a new pathway via which cancer cells evade the effects of radiation by deploying self-inflicted – but reversible – DNA breaks to stop the cell cycle and ensure their ...

This makes next-generation radiation therapy a potent weapon against cancer cells. However, it has not been fully investigated how these high LET-induced lesions are processed in mammalian cells ...

Radiation damage to paternal DNA is passed on to offspring Date: December 21, 2022 Source: University of Cologne Summary: Damage to the paternal genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ...

Radiation attacks the DNA of tumor cells, preventing tumor growth and eventually killing it. But it also damages the DNA of healthy tissue near the tumors, destroying those cells, too.

DNA polymerase θ-mediated repair of high LET radiation-induced complex DNA double-strand breaks. Nucleic Acids Research, 2023; 51 (5): 2257 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad076 ...

Damage to the paternal genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans cannot be repaired and is instead passed on to its offspring, while the female egg repairs or limits the damage / publication ...