{"id":175529,"date":"2023-11-06T22:35:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/dna-repair-discovery-might-improve-biotechnology-research"},"modified":"2023-11-06T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T04:35:15","slug":"dna-repair-discovery-might-improve-biotechnology-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/dna-repair-discovery-might-improve-biotechnology-research","title":{"rendered":"DNA repair discovery might improve biotechnology: Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-repair-discovery-might-improve-biotechnology-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington [US], March 5 (ANI): A team of researchers from Michigan State University\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine made a discovery that may have significance for therapeutic gene editing strategies, cancer diagnostics and therapies and other advancements in biotechnology. Kathy Meek, a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and collaborators at Cambridge University and the National Institutes of Health have uncovered a previously unknown aspect of how DNA double-stranded breaks are repaired.<\/p>\n<p>A large protein kinase called DNA-PK starts the DNA repair process; in their new report, two distinct DNA-PK protein complexes are characterized, each of which has a specific role in DNA repair that cannot be assumed by the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt still gives me chills,\u201d says Meek. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone would have predicted this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington [US], March 5 (ANI): A team of researchers from Michigan State University\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine made a discovery that may have significance for therapeutic gene editing strategies, cancer diagnostics and therapies and other advancements in biotechnology. Kathy Meek, a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, and collaborators at Cambridge University and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}