Chemist will tell why your DNA is like a telephone wire

Your DNA can be damaged like a long-distance telephone wire, and a researcher speaking in Ottawa this week is figuring out how your body fixes its banged-up wiring.
Jacqueline Barton of the California Institute of Technology has found that DNA turns itself into an electric wire, carrying signals that diagnose trouble.
The chemistry professor will explain her work in this year’s Herzberg Lecture, an annual public event at Carleton University. It is at 7 p.m. Wednesday on the second lev