Sentences with phrase «radiation biologist»

To see if radiated fish release signals to neighbors, a team led by radiation biologists Colin Seymour and Carmel Mothersill of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, x-rayed pairs of rainbow trout in a water - filled tank for 5 minutes.

Later radiation biologist Tikvah Alper and the mathematician John Stanley Griffith advanced the hypothesis that scrapie and Creutzfeldt — Jakob disease are were caused by infectious protein, seemingly contradicting the central dogma.

The National Academy of Sciences takes a stronger stance, concluding that any amount of ionizing radiation increases cancer risk, but radiation biologist Jacqueline Williams, who works at University of Rochester Medical Center, told the AP the risk is minimal:

Jorgensen, a radiation biologist, explores our uncomfortable history with the energy, from life - saving cancer treatments to the deplorable deaths of unsuspecting innocents contaminated by early weapons testing.

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's April 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, which spewed radionuclides over a swath of Europe, «there was no continuity, no overarching panel looking at how science should be done,» says Ronald Chesser, a radiation biologist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Laboratory experiments on animals indicate that as doses decrease, less and less damage escapes DNA - repair mechanisms, says Yoshihisa Matsumoto, a radiation biologist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Thought - provoking,» muses Helen Evans, a radiation biologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

«We will never be able to repeat the scale of those animal experiments, for both funding and ethical reasons,» says Gayle Woloschak, a radiation biologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.