[ RadSafe ] Publication : Bioremediation of Radionuclides: Emerging Technologies

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OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology
Bioremediation of Radionuclides: Emerging Technologies
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To cite this paper:
Raj Kumar, Sompal Singh, Om V. Singh. OMICS: A Journal
of Integrative Biology. 2007, 11(3): 295-304. 

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Raj Kumar 
Division of Radiation Biology and Radiation
Protection, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied
Sciences, New Delhi-100 054, India.

Sompal Singh 
Division of Radiation Biology and Radiation
Protection, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied
Sciences, New Delhi-100 054, India.

Om V. Singh 
Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

A large quantity of radioactive waste is being
generated as the byproduct of atomic energy and
related programs worldwide. There are multiple
radioactive waste dumping sites, that, if exposed to
the general population, may cause serious
life-threatening disorders. Currently, no efficient
technology is available that can store the radioactive
wastes with adequate safety. Therefore, bioremediation
of radionuclides/radioactive waste is an unavoidable
necessity that has been tried using biotransformation,
bioaccumulation, biosorption, biostimulation, and
bioaugmentaion, with limited success. Genetic
engineering has been implemented to develop an
organism that can effectively detoxify radionuclides
along with other organic pollutants present as
co-contaminants in the radioactive waste sites.
However, the lack of system-wide information regarding
factors regulating growth and metabolism of microbial
communities can be conquered by newly seeded
“-omics”-based technologies, viz. transcriptomics and
proteomics. Studies combining functional
transcriptomics and proteomics would create a
system-wide approach studying the microbial metabolism
in radionuclides detoxification.

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 OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology Sep 2007,
Vol.
 11, No. 3: 295-304.
Abstract
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/omi.2007.0013
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http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/omi.2007.0013
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