Written Again in Whole

Every cell in your body is under constant attack. Ultraviolet light, oxidative stress, even the simple act of breathing — all of it damages your DNA thousands of times each day. Left uncorrected, those breaks and errors would spiral into disease and death. But the body doesn't leave you to those wounds. In 2015, scientists Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how cells repair damaged DNA.…