This remodeling is crucial for its exceptional resistance to extreme conditions such as ionizing and UV radiation, as well as prolonged dryness ... a common strategy among bacteria to protect their ...

Of the two, ionizing radiation has a greater potential to break the structure of DNA in cells ... As such, their potential to cause DNA damage—or, in turn, cancer—is low to nil. According to the ...

The experiment will help determine the temperature structure and history of ... to protect a computer's hardware from damage caused by ionizing radiation in space and on the moon.

Oxidative stress in sperm cells, resulting in impaired fertilization ability and DNA damage, is associated ... changes of mobile phone radiation exposure on the testes. Exposure to EMR negatively ...

How cells respond to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is not fully understood. This study uncovers a mechanism of mtDNA ...

Most people associate sunburns with DNA damage -- it's what we've been taught in textbooks and by dermatologists for years.

I think most people associate sunburn with DNA damage; it is established knowledge. But now we need to rewrite the textbooks, and it will affect future research on the effects of UV radiation on ...

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 ...