Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

DNA damage has been associated with aging and disease. Double-strand breaks are one of the worst forms of damage. New research shines a light on the repair process.

RNA actively participates in repairing double-strand DNA breaks by binding to broken DNA ends, aligning sequences, and influencing repair outcomes.

The findings, presented by Dr. Enrique Gonzalez-Duran and Prof. Dr. Ralph Bock from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Nature Plants ("Suppression of plastid-to-nucleus gene ...

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05/26/2025 14:30 Why Plants Patch Broken DNA So Fast Rebecca Vaßen Büro für Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie. Researchers uncover how ...

More often, the strand of DNA is permanently broken, which could potentially lead to additional genetic abnormalities in the embryo." Dr Nada Kubikova, University of Oxford.