Fixing Your Damaged and Incorrect Genes

Description

Fixing Your Damaged and Incorrect Genes is a book about a well-established biological process called DNA REPAIR. The book describes the multiple and varied biochemical strategies by which damaged or incorrect nucleotides are removed from DNA or are corrected. The book includes multiple figures of notable past and present scientists in the field. The book is uniquely focused on an audience of non-biologists and is written in simple language with minimal use of technical terms. It contains an extensive glossary that provides explanations of key words that readers are encouraged to refer to as they read. Fixing Your Damaged and Incorrect Genes is unique, there being no previously published books for non-biologists on the topic of DNA repair.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Early History of the DNA Repair Field
3. The Composition and Structure of DNA
4. The Era of Radiation Biology
5. The Discovery of DNA Repair: Enzymatic Photoreactivation
6. The Emergence of DNA Repair
7. Excision Repair of DNA
8. Recombinational DNA Repair
9. Mismatch Repair
10. The Adaptive and SOS Responses
11. DNA Repair in the Context of Chromatin
12. Hereditary Diseases Associated with Defective Responses to DNA Damage
13. Conclusion