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DNA damage can last unrepaired for years, changing our view of mutations

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. This means that ...
Medical Xpress

Persistent DNA damage in healthy cells challenges traditional view of mutations

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. This means that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Anthropologists Recover DNA of Syphilis-Causing Bacterium Relative From 5,500-Year-Old Human Remains, the Earliest Ever Found

The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

5,500-year-old skeleton yields oldest evidence yet of syphilis-related bacteria

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...