{"id":731923,"date":"2022-08-10T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731923"},"modified":"2022-08-10T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:28:04","slug":"replication-protein-a-and-was-protein-partner-to-fix-damaged-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731923","title":{"rendered":"Replication protein A and WAS protein partner to fix damaged DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA replication and repair happens thousands of times a day in the human body and most of the time, people don&#8217;t notice when things go wrong thanks to the work of Replication protein A (RPA), the &#8220;guardian of the genome.&#8221; Scientists previously believed this protein &#8220;hero&#8221; responsible for repairing damaged DNA in human cells worked alone, but a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers showed that RPA works with an ally called the WAS protein (WASp) to &#8220;save the day&#8221; and prevent potential cancers from developing.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-08-replication-protein-partner-dna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Replication protein A and WAS protein partner to fix damaged DNA<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA replication and repair happens thousands of times a day in the human body and most of the time, people don&#8217;t notice when things go wrong thanks to the work&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}