Base excision repair articles from across Nature Portfolio Base excision repair is a process that removes and replaces damaged or misincorporated bases in one strand of the DNA that may generate ...

The authors examine the influence of new anti-HCV therapy on the DNA base excision repair system of peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Researchers discovered that base excision repair has a built-in mechanism to increase its effectiveness -- it just needs to be captured at a very precise point in the cell life cycle.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 89, No. 22 (Nov. 15, 1992), pp. 11031-11035 (5 pages) To determine whether base-to-base variations in the rate of ...

Scientists achieve a new understanding of the nucleotide excision repair process The new knowledge is expected to enhance our insight into cancer formation and resistance to antitumor therapy Peer ...