The DNA in our cells is subject to a lot of stress, and often the molecule breaks and becomes defective. There are mechanisms that exist to repair damaged DNA, but too often those are insufficient and the damaged DNA proliferates, potentially causing cancer and other diseases. Exogen Bio, a Lawrence Berkeley National Lab spin-off, has commercialized technology that can detect broken DNA strings in blood samples, and has asked for help from the crowd to better understand what such testing can reveal.
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