Given time, the body's repair mechanisms will reverse cell damage caused by radiation.

For many people, the first repair mechanism is to contrast their lot with less fortunate others.

But one of the first things a cell does when it starts down a road to cancer is to disable repair mechanisms.

In major injuries, the repair mechanisms are unable to restore the skin to its original condition.

It suggests there may be a repair mechanism that goes on throughout life but is insufficient in major disease.

So, they worry about getting infected, but they've also got to have some repair mechanisms.

The scar is a result of the body's repair mechanism after injury in many tissues.

This may leave natural selection as the primary repair mechanism for the Y chromosome.

Other repair mechanisms are possible but less accurate and efficient.

"The repair mechanisms in the 4700 A corridors are to be replaced," he said.