Genetic Phenomena: News and Research on DNA Damage

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Experimental study points to systemic sclerosis treatment

Investigators at Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University used an experimental drug to reverse the effects of systemic sclerosis, a serious autoimmune disease. The study, conducted in a laboratory, was published in JCI Insight.

Folic acid does not elevate formaldehyde in mice and humans

Folic acid—an essential vitamin added to flour and cereals and prescribed at high doses for cancer patients and people with blood disorders—does not elevate toxic formaldehyde in the body, according to a new study of mice ...

DNA damage can trigger neurons to self-destruct

Over the past decade, researchers at WashU Medicine have established that a molecule called SARM1 is a central trigger in the loss of axons, the vital wiring of the nervous system. Axon loss is characteristic of many neurodegenerative ...

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