The Body's DNA Repair Mechanism

Your DNA is literally breaking apart right now. Every single day, your genetic code

takes thousands of hits from sunlight, pollution, and even just your cells making sloppy

copy-paste errors during replication. It sounds like a disaster, but you are actually

a self-repairing machine. Your body has a biological autocorrect that catches typos

in real-time. For the bigger wrecks, like snapped strands, specialized protein crews cut out the

damage and stitch the helix back together. If these systems stopped working for even a second,

you’d be riddled with mutations. You are alive solely because your cells refuse to quit fixing

themselves.