Glowing Health
Apr. 15th, 2008 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerToo bad the brave, and mostly unsung, heroes of Chernobyl who took the lethal load to seal that thing up didn't have this available to them. It may amp things up so that folks with cancer can take higher loads of ionizing radiation without harming themselves. Very cool if it all works out.
New Drug Protects Against Radiation Damage - Scientific American - 11 Apr 08
"A new drug may protect healthy tissue during cancer-killing radiation treatments or other exposures. Molecular geneticist Andrei Gudkov and colleagues report in Science this week that they protected mice from the cell-damaging effects of radiation by injecting them with a compound that helps cells resist apoptosis, or self-destruction."
New Drug Protects Against Radiation Damage - Scientific American - 11 Apr 08
"A new drug may protect healthy tissue during cancer-killing radiation treatments or other exposures. Molecular geneticist Andrei Gudkov and colleagues report in Science this week that they protected mice from the cell-damaging effects of radiation by injecting them with a compound that helps cells resist apoptosis, or self-destruction."
