title: DNA repair: front and center and not going away!
abstract: This introduction to the book: DNA repair protocols: third edition, edited by Bjergbaek, discusses the history and more recent developments in the field of DNA repair. This research field started in the 1950 and developed from a small group of researchers interested in the damage caused to DNA by ultraviolet irradiation from the sun to become a large field of research today. DNA damage and its repair are now thought to play an important role in the etiologies of cancer, aging, and neurodegeneration and there is a great deal of interest in this venture. Thus, understanding of DNA processing is now a central field in molecular and cellular biology, and the field is still growing.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Gerontology, National Institute on Aging NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA. BohrV@grc.nia.nih.gov
authors.forename: Vilhelm A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Bohr
mesh_terms: D004260:DNA Repair; D004194:Disease / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research