DNA repair progress
August 27th, 2008 Posted in Nanomedicine News
At the LMU in Munich, Germany researchers have made a DNA chain that contains lesions. Namely, that is the key to understanding the DNA repairing process. „Any study of this process has been hampered by a lack of DNA that contains this lesion.“ says Thomas Carell of LMU.
The lesions are acutally just like those triggered by UV light and DNA stored in spores (Bacillus bacteria spores). These spores can lay for many years and keep on storing DNA, but then they come alive. What the German researchers would like to know is how the spores store DNA and how the lesion repair occurs.
Researching the „DNA area“ is a very important part of nanomedicine and bionanotechnology.
