date:Aug 06, 2012
Unfortunately, these free radicals are not harmless. Their chief danger comes from the damage they incur upon internal cellular structures such as DNA.
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule that stores information and is often compared to a set of blueprints or a recipe. Each cells DNA contains the instructions needed to construct other components of the cell and/or what each particular cell is supposed to do. When DNA is damaged by free radicals, there is an increased tendency for mutat