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SuperComputer draws molecular blueprints to repair damaged DNA

The Summit supercomputer revealed how the damaged strands of DNA are surgically repaired by a molecular pathway called nucleotide excision repair (NER). The protein components of the NER can change shape and perform different repair functions on broken strands of DNA (blue and red helix). Credit: Tanmoypole, Georgia State University Sunburn and aging skin are the obvious effects of exposure…