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A brief history of the DNA repair field

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CELL RESEARCH
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 3-7

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INST BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2007.113

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DNA repair; biological responses to DNA damage; ultraviolet light; excision repair; enzymatic photoreactivation; mismatch repair; DNA damage tolerance; recombination

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The history of the repair of damaged DNA can be traced to the mid-1930s. Since then multiple DNA repair mechanisms, as well as other biological responses to DNA damage, have been discovered and their regulation has been studied. This article briefly recounts the early history of this field.

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