16 Things You Should Know About Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

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13 Things You Should Know About beta-Carotene

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1. Beta-Carotene is a plant pigment that is…

13 Things You Should Know About Cancer Immunotherapy

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9 Things You Should Know About the Dicer Enzyme

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1. Dicer is an enzyme that is encoded in the DICER1 gene in humans. It is an endoribonuclease with helicase activity, which can bind to and remodel nucleic acid. It is particularly important because it cleaves…

13 Things You Should Know About DNA Repair

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8 Things You Should Know About Gene Therapy

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10 Things You Should Know About Treating Cancer With Gene Therapy

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14 Things You Should Know About DNA Damage

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DNA damage is an alteration in the chemical structure of DNA, such as a break in a strand of DNA, a base missing from the backbone of DNA, or a chemically changed base. The DNA in human cells undergoes thousands to…

13 Things You Should Know About Translesion DNA Synthesis

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1. In the last few years, some DNA polymerases, known as DNA translesion synthesis polymerases (TLS polymerases) have been identified which can replicate DNA that has been damaged; most DNA…

13 Things You Should Know About Zika Virus

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1. The Zika virus was first isolated in 1947…