High sensitivity to low doses – new study on old data
A team from the ELKH Centre for Energy Research, Hungary, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, has recently published work that may help provide insights into the variable response of cells to radiation exposure and cancer radiotherapy. Scientists have looked at the effect of irradiating cells in culture for some years now, measuring the fraction of cells capable of cell division after radiation exposure. Surprisingly, many cell lines show hyper-radiosensitivity at very low doses, …









