TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 27 -- Florida State University issued the following news release:
Roughly 20 million people receive a cancer diagnosis each year, and an estimated 1-in-5 people will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. Cancer cells arise from damage to the cell's instruction manual: DNA.
Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Florida State University's College of Medicine are changing the way scientists think about DNA repair, a process that plays a key role in both cancer prevention and helping some cancers grow.
Our cells contain natural repair machinery that, under normal conditions, cuts out the damaged DNA and fills in the blanks, preventing healthy cells from becoming cancerous. When DNA damage is ...