These cells usually repair themselves after chemotherapy.
But a plant can always make more of it when it starts to degrade, and a solar cell made by man cannot repair itself.
The cells would home in on damaged heart tissue, and repair it.
One of the outstanding problems was that of how cells repair what are known as mismatches.
Our cells repair themselves while we sleep, says Shives.
At low doses (e.g., those associated with background radiation), the cells repair the damage rapidly.
If your cells could not repair themselves, damage would rapidly kill them or make them run amok by damaging their control systems.
Living cells repair the damage as fast as it occurs.
Mammalian cells cannot efficiently repair these double strand breaks.
The hope is that those cells will repair the muscle damage.