DNA integrity is always under attack from environmental agents like skin cancer-causing UV rays. How do DNA repair mechanisms detect and repair damaged DNA, and what happens when they fail? Defects in ...

Feast your eyes on the blind Somalian cavefish, which has—like mammals—mysteriously lost the ability to use light to fix damaged DNA. Hectonichus / Wikimedia Commons Pale, shrunken and blind, the ...

What do blind cavefish, dinosaurs, and sunburnt humans have in common? A lot more than you may realize, according to a thought-provoking new study. New research published today in Current Biology ...

DNA repair can be divided into a set of mechanisms that identify and correct damage in DNA molecules. There are two general classes of DNA repair; the direct reversal of the chemical process ...