This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Solar UV radiation is the most important environmental factor involved in the pathogenesis of skin cancers. The well known genotoxic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The proximity of repair patches to persistent pyrimidine dimers in normal human cells and xeroderma pigmentosum group C and D cells was ...

In both prokaryotes and eukaryotes cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPD) formed by UV-irradiation are repaired mainly by the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. Evidence has been presented that ...

Many people lather up with sunscreen or cover up with hats to protect themselves from the sun’s harmful rays. These added layers help to shield the skin from ultraviolet (UV) light, which damages DNA ...

If decades of cheesy sci-fi and pop culture have taught us anything, it’s that radiation is a universally bad thing that invariably causes the genetic mutations that gifted us with everything from ...

A new study proposes that the presence of two beta-amyloid molecules bound together (beta-amyloid dimers) could provide a new biomarker for AD. The most widely used biomarkers for the early detection ...

The question of which Aβ species are toxic in Alzheimer’s disease is often asked, and the answer has been maddeningly elusive. At the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego November 3–7, ...