Ionizing radiation is considered a non-threshold ... to affect low-dose radiation cancer risk. Here, the types of DNA damage induced at low doses, the DNA damage response (DDR; a network of ...

Radiation inflicts extensive damage on cells’ DNA. For many cells, the damage is too complex to repair, and the cells die–making radiotherapy a frontline cancer treatment. However, some tumor cells ...

When people undergo radiotherapy for cancer, it's not just the tumor that suffers. The radiation causes DNA breaks in healthy ...

These studies focus on the role of the microvasculature in tissue damage. Endothelial cells generate 20-fold more of a unique form of acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase), termed Secretory ASMase, than any ...

Although UV light in the UV-A through UV-C range is not ionizing, it damages DNA and ... the cellular damage even had a chance. Additionally, the penetration depth of EM radiation (EMR) into ...

The damage suppression protein ... the tardigrades had repaired most of the DNA broken by ionizing radiation. This suggests, the researchers found, that H. exemplaris is able to sense ionizing ...

"Ionizing radiation — such as X-rays ... "In bacteria, radiation can cause DNA damage, protein oxidation and membrane disruption, leading to cell death," he explained. "In humans, radiation ...

Human chromosomes are constantly assaulted by challenges to their integrity as a result of either environmental agents that damage DNA or from normal DNA metabolism ... on the repair of 1 particular ...

Radiation can also deposit large amounts of ... Lungs Breathing in radioactive gas can damage DNA. Stomach Radioactive sources can sit in the stomach and irradiate for a long time.