The Therac-25 was not a device anyone was happy to see. It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target.

Radiation from mobile phones may cause brain tissue damage, a two-year study has found. Scientists discovered that emissions from handsets affect the delicate make-up of cells in blood vessels ...

After transfer of radioactive material from stock solutions. After each experimental run if there is a possibility of a change in radiation levels or contamination. After a minor radioactive spill ...

I see Gy∙cm2 and mGy on the monitor of my angiography machine. What do these represent? These are two measured dosimetric quantities that can be used to estimate the radiation risks. Gy∙cm2 is used ...

The experiments we have made have confirmed this anticipation, and shown that in every case in which light is scattered by the molecules in dust-free liquids or gases, the diffuse radiation of the ...

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A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated ... have already been exposed to chemotherapies and/or radiation treatments. Similarly, some gene therapies ...

Skin Radiation can burn skin or cause cancer. Bone marrow Radiation can cause leukaemia and other diseases of the blood. The risk associated with radioactive materials depends on the amount of ...

The machine aims radiation beams from different positions around the body ... Very rarely, SABR can cause damage to your liver or kidneys. You will have blood tests to check for this. SIRT is a type ...

Investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have validated a test that can accurately predict which ...

This process, whereby species evolve rapidly to exploit empty ecospace, is known as adaptive radiation ... flowers, the blood of seabirds, and leaves. The ancestral finch was a ground-dwelling ...