Sentences with phrase «dna from damage»

Vitamin C protects DNA from damage by trapping free radicals and inhibiting formation of carcinogens.

Leafy green veggies are a great source of chlorophyll, which can help protect our DNA from damage and aid the detoxification process.

Folate is essential for it improves blood circulation, helps form neurotransmitters, and protects DNA from damage as much, if not more, than some nootropics.

In an article recently published in the August 2008 «Journal of American Nutrition», researchers concluded that olive oil likely prevents cancer and aging by protecting DNA from damage.

Life Extension DNA Protection Formula helps protect cells and DNA from damage.

Eggs are full of B vitamins, which are important for focus, lifting fatigue and protecting your DNA from damage.

Protection of DNA from damage in yeast cells and destruction of human liver cancer cells have also been demonstrated.

Telomerase renews (elongates) the telomeres, which are responsible for the protection of human DNA from damage and cancer causing errors.

Antioxidant consumption is especially important during pregnancy, helping protect fetal DNA from damage and also reduce maternal tissue damage associated with inflammation and oxidative stress.

They're also interested in how the cell, or host, fights off jumping genes and protects DNA from damage.

The protein produced by this gene protects the chromosome ends of the DNA from damage, and controls telomere maintenance by the telomerase enzyme.

Certain flavonoids found in buckwheat like oligomeric proanthocyanidins may repair DNA from damage and reduce inflammation.

Not exact matches

Murdoch University has partnered with a Perth company which plans to use cannabis as a medicinal product, a day after scientists from the University of Western Australia said cannabis use could damage a person's DNA.

But RF energy doesn't cause the DNA damage that radiation from the sun or from X-rays does, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Why and how smoking causes lung cancer - carcinogens from the smoke damage DNA of the lungs.

@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

The phytochemicals in cruciferous vegetables keep toxins from doing the kind of damage to our DNA that leads to cancer.

It helps in protecting cells from DNA damage and has some other benefits.

Then that cell (now a free radical) goes and steals an electron from another healthy cell which essentially starts a free radical cascade that can cause serious DNA damage if it continues.

The study, published Feb. 5 in Nature Neuroscience, showed that the patients» nerve cells — converted directly from patients» skin cells — exhibited «symptoms» of the disorder, including DNA damage, dysfunctional mitochondria and cell death.

Telomeres are repetitive stretches of DNA that cap natural chromosome ends to protect them from being damaged or fused together during DNA replication.

He winced at stories of congenitally damaged children, and his global interest in the DNA of Jewish populations sprang from a desire never again to hold the hand of a distraught Jewish parent.

That's because it comes from plants, which are prolific producers of polyphenols, antioxidant compounds believed to mop up so - called free radicals, very reactive molecules that can damage DNA.

By mixing DNA with an electrochemiluminescent (ECL) agent, a mixture that lights up after electrochemical reactions take place, and exposing it to extracts from cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapor, the chemists were able to spot DNA damage.

Ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun and from tanning beds can damage the DNA in skin cells, causing melanoma.

Called p53, the protein sounds the alarm to kill cells with DNA damage and prevent them from becoming cancerous — one reason why it has been called the «guardian of the genome.»

Without a protective layer of ozone, life would be exposed to DNA - damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun.

Damage to DNA or mistakes in replicating it generate random mutations, ranging from changes in single «letters» to duplications or deletions of huge chunks of DNA.

The mechanisms that promote or enable drug resistance include drug inactivation, drug target alteration, drug removal from cells, DNA damage repair, cell death inhibition and the epithelial - mesenchymal transition (EMT) that enable solid tumors to transform into more metastatic grades.

The finding, presented here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), suggests that the blood - vessel damage that precedes a heart attack could in certain people arise from poor DNA repair.

«If DNA damage occurs significantly more slowly in crystal aggregates, then these results would be an important step toward recovering DNA from older specimens,» she told New Scientist.

PARP inhibitors prevent cancer cells from repairing themselves after experiencing DNA damage (for example from chemotherapy or radiation).

Presumably, the transcription factors are putting kinks in the DNA that prevent it from being damaged, he said.

But using a technique that lets them map the genome in much greater detail, Wyrick and his team saw that DNA was more damaged when it faced away from the histone.

Because ancient DNA is almost always badly damaged, its signal is easily swamped by even a speck of more modern contaminants — anything from bacteria that invaded the bone after death to the roast beef sandwich residue on a researcher's hands.

Schiffman and his team conducted another series of experiments in the laboratory on blood samples from adult African elephants to find how these genes respond to DNA damage in the elephant cells.

During that time, scientists believe that Earth lacked a solid core and thus had a much weaker magnetic field — something required to protect life on Earth from DNA - damaging radiation.

Oestrogen levels are higher in women than in men, so if alcohol interacts with these molecules and stops them from damaging DNA, the reduction in kidney - cancer rates would be larger for women than for men.

Mutations occur, for example, when cells copy their DNA incorrectly or fail to repair damage from chemicals or radiation.

According to one popular theory, when mitochondria extract energy from chemicals, by - products called oxygen radicals damage mitochondrial DNA and other critical molecules.

«This implies that excision repair is needed to fix DNA damage from other, unknown factors besides UV,» Oztas said.

The idea that Romesberg came up with was to block one of the molecular processes that the bacterium goes through to prevent the drug from binding to it and causing this havoc of damage to its DNA and one of the ways that that resistance develops.

If the ultraviolet radiation from the sun damages human DNA to cause health problems, does UV radiation also damage plant DNA?

Prof. Umeda says that the study provides a new paradigm for how plant cell division ceases upon DNA damage, thus preventing damaged cells from accumulating under stressful conditions.

Sunburn in living organisms is caused by ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun damaging the DNA in the cells.

In 2001, he discovered that a strain of yeast made up of unusually small cells and colonies lived about three times longer than normal yeast and was highly protected from DNA damage and aging.

The p53 protein sounds the alarm to kill cells with DNA damage, preventing them from becoming cancerous.

The scientists from Berlin now found that while DNA damage induced by other means, such as irradiation or genotoxic chemicals, is indeed random, the damage caused by H. pylori is not.

«Without DNA damage, CDK prevents Rep - MYB from activating, which allows the cell cycle to progress to cell division.

The next job is to unwind the DNA helix and cut out the offending portion from the damaged strand.