Ada Palmer on Nostr: Canadian researchers have discovered a protein in a bacterium called Deinococcus ...
Canadian researchers have discovered a protein in a bacterium called Deinococcus radiodurans that has a never-before-seen ability to stop DNA damage. 'With a human cell, if there are any more than two breaks in the entire billion base pair genome, it can’t fix itself and it dies (...) this unique protein helps the cell to repair hundreds of broken DNA fragments into a coherent genome.'
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