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 are single base changes, that do not affect the reading frame; that is, the mutation only makes a single change in a single codon, and everything else is undisturbed. There are three types of point mutation:1  Silent Mutation.rameshift mutations alter the reading frame of the DNA. They come in two flavors: 1  Insertion: This mutation inserts a base pair (or more) into the DNA, shifting everything to the right (or left, depending on your point of view) by one base pair.