Sentences with phrase «effects of radiation for»

But NASA has been examining the neurological effects of radiation for some time.

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Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

He must now be monitored periodically for the rest of his life to measure and control the radiation's effects on his body.

These include adequate uranium supply (probably necessitating immense uranium strip mines in Tennessee), almost inconceivable reactor and waste - transport accidents, low - level radiation effects from normal plant operations, and the burden of guarding both radioactive waste and outdated but radioactive nuclear plants for thousands of years.

For example, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor, professor and chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale University, studied the effects of non-ionizing radiation on the fetuses of pregnant mice.

Earlier this year, we saw that Belly Armor — the definitive resource for expecting mothers and families to protect their children against the harmful effects of everyday radiation — launched a new line of infant hats with radiation shielding fabric.

Some observers quietly worry that, under Trump, a new focus on climate engineering could become part of a justification for delaying government action to curb carbon emissions, with the reasoning that geoengineering technologies could later be used to remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prevent the warming effects of solar radiation.

«It contradicts the clinical principle of delaying radiation as long as possible for the sake of the patient's side effects.

Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects.

For men with intermediate risk prostate cancer, side effects at two years following radiation therapy (RT) were comparable for extremely - hypofractionated treatment, which was delivered in seven fractions across two and a half weeks, and conventional treatment of 39 fractions across eight weeks, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRFor men with intermediate risk prostate cancer, side effects at two years following radiation therapy (RT) were comparable for extremely - hypofractionated treatment, which was delivered in seven fractions across two and a half weeks, and conventional treatment of 39 fractions across eight weeks, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRfor extremely - hypofractionated treatment, which was delivered in seven fractions across two and a half weeks, and conventional treatment of 39 fractions across eight weeks, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRfor Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

«Our preclinical data suggest that combining low doses of these inhibitors will enhance the clinical effects of both drugs as a potential treatment for patients with AML,» says the senior author, Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

«In theory, then, in some of these conditions it should be possible for healthy donated stem cells to outcompete native cells, without exposing patients to the toxic effects of radiation or alkylating agents.»

Investigating how space radiation affects astronauts and learning ways to mitigate those effects are critical to further human exploration of space, and NASA needs to consider these risks as it plans for missions to Mars and beyond.

This separation is essential for the study of gravity because the effect of gravitational radiation — the steady conversion of orbital velocity to gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein — is incredibly small and would have negligible impact on the orbit of the pulsar.

Phillips says, for instance, that sometimes the body will respond to radiation by initiating a series of intrinsic repair mechanisms designed to fix the harmful effects.

Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.

Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.

However, it is the precise understanding of the intermediate steps that is very important for the prediction and design of radiation effects in matter.

Mice have been kept aboard the ISS for up to 91 days, during which time they were used to study a loss in blood quality called flight anaemia, and the effects of cosmic radiation on fertility.

Late last month, NASA announced the winners of 12 awards for studying the biological effects of radiation.

But their major effect would have come from radiation, which the KU astrophysicist said would have packed doses equivalent to one CT scan per year for every creature inhabiting land or shallower parts of the ocean.

Yet there is no doubt that research into atmospheric aerosols is becoming increasingly important due to the effects that they can have on the global temperature of Earth, given that solar radiation is the main source of energy for Earth - Atmosphere system.

At the same time, here in Kiev physicist Elena Bakhanova at the Research Center for Radiation Medicine is adapting the principles used to three - dimensionally model radiation fields at Chernobyl to help investigate the health effects of medical radiation.

Since whole - brain radiation is associated with significant cognitive effects and the use of additional radiation therapy for progression is common in this population, the Yale researchers suspect that patients with the ALK mutation would benefit from radiation focused on individual metastases.

For instance, Chumak and his colleagues developed a way to estimate doses people received by analyzing tooth enamel for effects of ionizing radiatiFor instance, Chumak and his colleagues developed a way to estimate doses people received by analyzing tooth enamel for effects of ionizing radiatifor effects of ionizing radiation.

Even today, Trinity visitors look for the effects of radiation everywhere, including the scrub inside the interior perimeter close to the point of detonation, which is shorter than the vegetation on the rest of the plain.

Plant workers are being exposed to much higher levels of radiation than the general population, and will be monitored for long - term health effects.

Choosing optimal IGRT regimens that spare healthy tissue and organs is a particular concern for pediatric patients to help prevent potential late effects associated with the distribution of the radiation dose and the total radiation dose the patient receives.

That just leaves a few details: creating protection from savage radiation and the effects of zero - gravity, building a Mars - capable rocket, contriving fail - proof sustenance for the 18 - month trip, devising a means for a massive vehicle to gently touch down on the martian surface, and, oh yes, finding the societal and political will to finance the trip.

«This doesn't mean radiation is good for wildlife, just that the effects of human habitation, including hunting, farming, and forestry, are a lot worse.»

Chernobyl was directly responsible for at least 56 deaths and as many as 4,000 more, according to the World Health Organization, though other estimates vary, and spread radioactive material as far as the U.K. Three Mile Island has never been conclusively linked to any deaths or health effects, though some individuals may have received radiation doses of as high as 100 millirems.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

Reflux can be a common side effect of chemotherapy or radiation treatment for head and neck cancer.

Until recently, researchers assumed that after human ancestors shed most body hair, sometime before 2 million years ago, they quickly evolved dark skin for protection from skin cancer and other harmful effects of UV radiation.

«These studies suggest the potential for dramatically reducing the dose of chemotherapy or radiation and thereby reducing the side effects of standard chemotherapy by enhancing the targeting of cancer therapies using HIV receptor blocking drugs.»

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (January 23, 2018)-- For decades, researchers have tried to target cancer therapies to only the cancerous cells, to avoid the toxic bystander effects of standard chemo and radiation therapy to normal cells.

As a result, the sources of radiation exposure would be different isotopes for a thorium - based radiation source than uranium - based source, and the relationship between exposure and health effect would be different as well.

Results: In the quest for safe methods of storing nuclear waste, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Curtin University, Australia are investigating radiation effects on candidate materials for immobilizing plutonium and other actinides.

Researchers found that shorter course of radiation therapy may provide lesser side effects for early stage breast cancer patients compared to the long - term treatments.

Limoli and colleagues studied the effects of such radiation on rats, and it didn't take long for serious brain damage to set in.

June 13, 2016 Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy agents.

«For survivors at risk of breast cancer due to chest radiation or heart problems because of anthracyclines, screening tests like mammograms and echocardiograms that result in early detection of late effects of cancer therapy may make a lifesaving difference,» he said.

The idea for a spinoff medical technology company originated several years ago when Medlin and his adviser, Endre Takacs, were working in Clemson's Atomic and Medical Physics lab on an experiment with bioengineers to systematically study the effects of low - dose radiation on living cell cultures.

Three potential causes have been identified for this weird discrepancy: dark energy may be pushing the boundaries of universe faster and faster, sterile neutrinos may be adding something to the equation we didn't count on, or dark matter may have a bigger effect on matter or radiation than we thought.

Due to its cell killing effect, radiation therapy is widely used as a primary source of treatment for numerous types of cancers.

AMiBA, a millimeter interferometer like ALMA, was constructed by ASIAA (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) and National Taiwan University for polarimetry of microwave background radiation and detection of distant clusters of galaxies using the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect.

Continual follow - up care is equally essential to monitor for side effects of radiation and chemotherapy, as well as second malignancies.

If the temperature decreased with altitude, infrared radiation would at some point pass through a region of cooler water - gas, which would absorb the part of the spectrum responsible for the glowing effect, he explained.

While at Stanford, I was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) fellowship award for research into the effects of inflammation and radiation on neural stem cells.

The next are medical treatments for hyperthyroidism (designed to slow the thyroid), radiation treatment for cancers of the head and neck, thyroid surgery (removal of some or all of the gland), or side effects of drugs for other conditions.