{"id":188040,"date":"2024-04-24T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/researchers-uncover-human-dna-repair-by-nuclear-metamorphosis"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:26:53","slug":"researchers-uncover-human-dna-repair-by-nuclear-metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/researchers-uncover-human-dna-repair-by-nuclear-metamorphosis","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover human DNA repair by nuclear metamorphosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-human-dna-repair-by-nuclear-metamorphosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a DNA repair mechanism that advances understanding of how human cells stay healthy, and which could lead to new treatments for cancer and premature aging.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41594-024-01286-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Structural and Molecular Biology<\/i>, also sheds light on the mechanism of action of some existing chemotherapy drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think this research solves the mystery of how DNA double-strand breaks and the nuclear envelope connect for repair in human cells,\u201d said Professor Karim Mekhail, co-principal investigator on the study and a professor of laboratory medicine and pathobiology at U of T\u2019s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a DNA repair mechanism that advances understanding of how human cells stay healthy, and which could lead to new treatments for cancer and premature aging. The study, published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, also sheds light on the mechanism of action of some existing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188040","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}