Sentences with phrase «study radiation effects»

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Just look at this list of benefits from a recent study done at the Yale - Griffin Prevention Research Center by David L. Katz, MD, and his colleagues: «Cocoa can protect nerves from injury and inflammation, protect the skin from oxidative damage from UV radiation... and have beneficial effects on satiety, cognitive function, and mood.»

The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date of health effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research agency.

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.

Japanese researchers are about to launch one of the most ambitious epidemiological studies ever attempted on the effects of low - dose radiation.

Earlier studies on the sensitivity of tropical cyclones to past climates have only analyzed the effect of changes in the solar radiation from orbital forcing on the formation of tropical cyclones, without considering the feedbacks associated to the consequent greening of the Sahara.

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.

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

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.

«If you do the study and don't find anything, that should be an important message,» says Dale Preston, a biostatistician specializing in radiation health effects at Hirosoft International in Eureka, California.

The trio decided to apply «target theory» — a central concept in the study of the effects of radiation — to genes.

A new study suggests cell phone radiation may actually have a beneficial biological effect — two hours of exposure a day staved off Alzheimer's disease in mice.

Many who study radiation's effects on the cellular level prefer to err on the side of caution.

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.

Golge, a dual citizen who had been studying the effects of radiation on astronauts, was swept up in a crackdown that followed Turkey's 2016 failed military coup.

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.

The agency's last research project on primates began in the early 1970s, when NASA and the US air force studied the effect of radiation on cataract formation in rhesus monkeys.

However, because it remains heavily contaminated by radiation, the region represents an accidental ecological experiment to study the effects of ionizing radiation on wild animals.

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

That's one reason why the Indian health ministry has initiated a 5 - year study to gather more scientific evidence on the potential effects of electromagnetic radiation.

The current study, led by John Regan, a postdoctoral researcher at Ireland's Dublin City University, modeled the process using software developed by Columbia's Greg Bryan, and includes the effects of gravity, fluid dynamics, chemistry and radiation.

The committee's list of suggested projects includes studies of the effects on plankton and krill of the ultraviolet radiation that is streaming through the Antarctic ozone hole.

American scientists used the support to study rescue robotics, the effect of radiation on wildlife, and other topics soon after the earthquake.

These include the behaviour of the Italian government in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the basis of decision - making in civil nuclear power in Switzerland and France, and the controversy over the supposed effects of radiation doses to fathers on their offspring at Sellafield (a large case control study, which has recently been published, contradicts the views in the book), and the Black enquiry into childhood leukaemias in the vicinity of the plant.

The problem with studying the effects of this fallout is that the world is bathed with naturally occurring low - level radiation, with sources ranging from long - distance air travel to plasma televisions.

In July 2016, he and his family were in southern Turkey wrapping up a visit to relatives and preparing to return home to Houston, Texas, where the Turkish - American space scientist studies the effects of radiation on astronauts.

Earlier studies in the 4,200 km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone showed major radiation effects and pronounced reductions in wildlife populations.

The findings from Otaki's group are «groundbreaking,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, who also studies the effects of radiation on wildlife near Fukushima and Chernobyl.

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.

It will study the effects of space radiation on DNA and will be strictly confined to a platform on the station run by NanoRacks, the company that Chinese researchers have contracted to run the experiment.

«The results of this preliminary study have prompted us to look closely at radiation's effects on the brain,» said Loyola neurosurgeon Vikram Prabhu, MD, first author of the study.

«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.»

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

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.

He currently leads a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team studying defects and radiation effects in high - tech ceramics.

Research techniques — unique to the Kimmel Cancer Center — allow us to study the effects of radiation therapy in ways never before possible and to image, quantify and measure tumor responses in real time.

More regional studies such as an examination of downward longwave radiation over the central Alps find that downward longwave radiation is increasing due to an enhanced greenhouse effect (Philipona 2004).

• Stay protected by applying a moisturizer with black tea extract before sunscreen; studies show the ingredient decreases the effect of UV radiation on skin and may help prevent sunburns.

A 2015 article in the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology sums up the findings of multiple studies on ketogenic diets and cancer with the following: «there is increasing evidence that the ketogenic diet may also be beneficial as an adjuvant cancer therapy by potentiating the antitumor effect of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

This study examined the effect of extra virgin olive oil on hairless mice when exposed to UBV radiation.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health counts 135 registered trials of curcumin in the last 15 years, according to the study authors, but not one double - blind, placebo - controlled clinical trial on curcumin can support all of the benefits we've been attributing to it, and when it comes to research that seemed to prove curcumin's effects on pancreatic and colon cancers, Alzheimer's disease, and radiation - induced rashes, it seems that the supposed benefits are all cracked up.

Strong gut flora increases immunity, stops yeast production (goodbye, candida), blocks the harmful effects of radiation, and produces healthy enzymes that in one study showed to potentially

Strong gut flora increases immunity, stops yeast production (goodbye, candida), blocks the harmful effects of radiation, and produces healthy enzymes that in one study showed to potentially block cancerous tumor growth and aid in chemotherapy effectiveness.

Niacinamide also acts as an antioxidant and has been studied for its effectiveness in helping to support healthy cartilage and joint function, helping to promote joint comfort and mobility, and helping to provide support for healthy skin in various ways including protection from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation.

Studies abound on the adverse health effects of ionizing, as well as non-ionizing radiation.

Studies suggest, for example, that yoga therapy can lessen the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments for people with cancer and facilitate faster recovery after bypass surgery.

A multi-center study of German breast cancer patients showed that IV therapy alongside chemo and radiation keeps vitamin C levels where they should be and counteracts the oxidative stress that cancer treatments cause, reducing side effects and enhancing quality of life during and after treatment.

Check with your veterinarian, particularly if your dog is undergoing radiation or chemotherapy since there are a few studies that indicate that anti-oxidants could have a negative effect one week before or after treatment.

Detailed studies of the energy balance and ablation of the Zongo and Chacaltaya glaciers support the importance of air temperature increase, and identify the increase in downward infrared radiation as the main way that the effect of the warmer air is communicated to the glacier surface [Wagnon et al. 1999; Francou et al, 2003].

A regional study over the central Alps found that downward infrared radiation is increasing due to the enhanced greenhouse effect.

«We see, for the first time in the field, the amplification of the greenhouse effect because there's more CO2 in the atmosphere to absorb what the Earth emits in response to incoming solar radiation,» Daniel Feldman, a scientist in the Berkeley Lab and the study's lead author, said in a news release.