> The discovery is all the more surprising because DNA double-strand breaks, in which both rails of the helical ladder get cut at the same position along the genome, are a particularly dangerous kind of genetic damage associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging.<p>It's amazing how much, yet how little we know of our bodies and living organisms in general. I hope vast advances in understanding biology become the 21st century-equivalent of the technological revolution of the 20th century.
Articles like this make me think that possibly our GPU algorithms based on nascent ideas regarding how the brain works may be missing something very fundamental.