Hernias are a common medical problem. In the United States more than one million hernia surgeries are performed each year.

and that repair becomes more error-prone with advancing maternal age. Cells in the human body have very different life spans, ...

Defects in DNA repair underlie a number of human genetic diseases that affect a wide variety of body systems but share a constellation of common traits, most notably a predisposition to cancer ...

Cells in the human body have very different life spans ... The egg cell’s ability to repair damage in its DNA is crucial to ensure that it remains functional for a long time and does not die. To this ...