I've developed a weird painless growth on my neck. Do I need to get it removed? Dr Philippa Kaye answers: One of the most likely causes of a growth on the neck would be a cyst. These are fluid–filled ...

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Rochelle Collins, DO, is a board-certified family medicine physician and assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Quinnipiac University. Discharge from your belly button might be a sign of ...

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Nucleotide excision repair is a process that repairs damage to one strand of the DNA, particularly from UV irradiation, which distorts the DNA helix. The DNA flanking the damage site is cleaved to ...

Base excision repair is a process that removes and replaces damaged or misincorporated bases in one strand of the DNA that may generate mutations if left unrepaired. The damaged base is modified and ...