Curcumin, a substance found in the spice turmeric, has long been used in Asian medicine to treat a variety of maladies. Now some research suggests that curcumin may help prevent or treat cancer. Curcumin is thought to have antioxidant properties, which means it may decrease swelling and inflammation.
The types of mutations include: This type of mutation is a change in one DNA base pair that results in the substitution of one amino acid for another in the protein made by a gene. A nonsense mutation is also a change in one DNA base pair.
Point mutations usually involve a change is just a single nucleotide pair. The first kind is called a base substitution. As its name implies, a base is replaced by an incorrect base. The second kind is actually two kinds: insertions and deletions (the addition or subtraction of nucleotide pairs).