Sentences with phrase «what radiation damage»

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This changes a lot of what scientists thought they knew about how water bears deal with radiation, as they were previously thought to have proteins that repaired damaged DNA, rather than proteins that halt damage altogether.

«The data are highly relevant to studies using free - electron lasers, because they show in detail what happens when radiation damage is produced.»

The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).

Washington State University researchers have mapped the damage of ultraviolet radiation on individual units of DNA, opening a new avenue in the search for how sunlight causes skin cancer and what might be done to prevent it.

Professor's research examines how much cosmic radiation is too much, and what damage it can cause.

Alcohol can have a strong impact on the production of oxidative stress, because it is not metabolized in the liver — leading to alcoholic liver disease.6, 7 The development of oxidative stress is also related to smoking, which suppresses the immune response and damages lung function.8 What may seem like a surprising factor is the use of pharmaceutical drugs and radiation.

I do see a disconnect at this very point in the way you visualize what is actually happening and that, to me, is why a huge Fresnel lens in a dark room no matter how hot it is will never be able to focus «back radiation» and cause damage.