AW: [ RadSafe ] Drug that may prevent radiation injury

[John Jacobus]

Rainer,
  Your second comment is appropriate.  I worked at a lab were WR2721 was used for years.  The problem was that it had to be given to the animals before exposures.
   
  I am not sure about the first comment.  When your mission is to fund research using money that is not yours (the taxpayers') everything seems worthwhile. 

Rainer.Facius at dlr.de wrote:
  1) DARPA is not known for funding bogus science.

2) The crux indeed is whether the antioxidant, radical scavenging activity will help in a post-exposure scenario, i.e., when most or all of the initial radicals are gone long ago.

Dr. Rainer Facius
German Aerospace Center
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Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag von Michael McCarty
Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 15:10
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Drug that may prevent radiation injury

For your enlightenment, entertainment, and any discussion that occur:

http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=10512

Feds fund study of drug that may prevent radiation injury Defense department funds study of nanotube-based drug made at Rice



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John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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