Working closely with a team of researchers from Duke University, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have helped identify a molecular pathway that plays a key role in stress-related damage to the genome, the entirety of an organism’s hereditary information.
The new findings could explain the development of certain human disorders, and also offer a potential model for prevention and therapy.
While the human mind and body are built to respond to stress — the well-known “fight or flight” response, which lasts only a few minutes and raises heart rate and blood glucose levels — the response itself can cause significant damage if maintained over long periods of time.
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