The Body That Refuses to Give Up

Every day, without your awareness, something remarkable is happening inside every cell of your body. Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Tomas Lindahl — whose research earned him the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — showed that each human cell sustains somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 individual DNA lesions every single day: breaks, deletions, chemical corruptions from sunlight, oxygen, and ordinary metabolism. That should be catastrophic.…