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IIT-Hyd researchers unravel protein that repairs damaged DNA

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Press Trust of India Hyderabad
Last Updated : Dec 26 2019 | 1:40 PM IST

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has unravelled the functioning of a protein that repairs a damaged DNA in humans and helps prevent diseases like cancer.

Nature has evolved techniques to not only protect DNA, but also to repair a damaged one so that catastrophic damage can be averted, a press release from the institute said on Thursday

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First Published: Dec 26 2019 | 1:40 PM IST

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