This introduction to the book: DNA repair protocols: third edition, edited by Bjergbaek, discusses the history and more recent developments in the field of DNA repair. This research field started in the 1950 and developed from a small group of researchers interested in the damage caused to DNA by ultraviolet irradiation from the sun to become a large field of research today. DNA damage and its repair are now thought to play an important role in the etiologies of cancer, aging, and neurodegeneration and there is a great deal of interest in this venture. Thus, understanding of DNA processing is now a central field in molecular and cellular biology, and the field is still growing. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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Bohr, V. A. (2012). DNA repair: Front and center and not going away! Methods in Molecular Biology, 920, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-998-3_1
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