Volume 18, No 1, Jan 2008

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 18 Issue 1, January 2008: 3-7

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A brief history of the DNA repair field

Errol C Friedberg¹

¹Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA Correspondence: Errol C Friedberg(errol.friedberg@utsouthwestern.edu)

The history of the repair of damaged DNA can be traced to the mid-1930s. Since then multiple DNA repair mechanisms, as well as other biological responses to DNA damage, have been discovered and their regulation has been studied. This article briefly recounts the early history of this field.

Cell Research (2008) 18:3-7. doi: 10.1038/cr.2007.113; published online 24 December 2007

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