antirepair

Meanings

adjectiveantirepair (not comparable)

not comparablePreventing or opposing the repair of equipment.
Under existing antitrust doctrine, there are four distinct legal theories that could be used to target these antirepair policies.
2022, Aaron Perzanowski, The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own, page 177
not comparablebiologyInhibiting the repair of damaged DNA.
an antirepair effect
2 more examples
an antirepair pathway
The increased levels of mature miRNAs could play a role in the DNA damage response by (1) decreasing the levels of antirepair genes (such as the antirecombinases, Srs2, PARI, RTEL1 [122]) (2) downregulating DDR proteins through a feedback regulation loop to restore pre-DNA damage levels.
2017, Alexey Moskalev, Alexander Vaiserman, Epigenetics of Aging and Longevity, page 174

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