Scientists identify the main cause of sunburns, and now they have to rewrite the textbooks

Your skin protects you from dirt, germs, and harmful environmental factors, but it also gets exposed to sunlight and UV rays, which can cause sunburn, long-term skin damage, or even cancer. Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have discovered that RNA damage, not DNA, triggers the acute effects of sunburn.

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