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New research shows that acetaldehyde, the breakdown product generated when the body removes alcohol, causes irreversible damage to the DNA of stem cells in the body’s ‘blood cell factory’ – the bone marrow.
The research, published in Nature, was carried out by a team of scientists led by KJ Patel in the LMB’s PNAC Division.