Science news articles about 'defective dna repair'

... to a disease similar to ATLD, highlighting the connections between diseases resulting from defects in this DNA repair pathway," McKinnon said. The mice engineered to mimic ATLD, like their human ...

... XLF shares many properties with well known DNA repair factors, certain cells of the immune ... genomic instability and displayed major defects in the ability to repair DSBs. Surprisingly, however, mature ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have teased apart the biological details distinguishing two related neurological diseases - ataxia telangiectasia-like disease (ATLD) and Nijmegen ...

... it stop growing to repair the damage. If the checkpoints are working but the cell has a defective DNA repair system, the cell will be radiosensitive. But if the checkpoints don't operate, the cell ...