Entries from July 2009

July 21, 2009

New Drug Shields Against Radiation

 

Abraham Rabinovich – The Australian July 18, 2009
A medication that can protect people exposed to normally lethal doses of radiation from a nuclear or a “dirty” bomb has been developed, reports say.
In tests involving 650 monkeys exposed to radiation equivalent to that recorded during the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986, 70 per cent [...]