One tiny electron could be key to furture drugs that repair sunburn
Monday, July 25, 2011 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
Researchers who have been working for nearly a decade to piece together the process by which an enzyme repairs sun-damaged DNA have finally witnessed the entire process in full detail in the laboratory. What they saw contradicts fundamental notions of how key biological molecules break up during the repair of sunburn -- and that knowledge could someday lead to drugs or even lotions that could heal sunburn in humans.