Sentences with phrase «inflicted upon the cell»
Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.
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Listen in on a chat with Orsolya Barabas of EMBL Heidelberg and Ramesh Pillai of EMBL Grenoble about the chaos that transposons, or «jumping genes», can inflict upon our cells, how we keep them under control, and why we have them at all.