Re: Sensitive Test Identifies Radiation Damage

[Bjorn Sandstrom <sandstrom@ume.foa.se>]

At 18:07 1998-07-28 -0500, you wrote:
>I was reading through an R&D mag that mainly deals with electronics when I
>found the following.
>
>"Sensitive test identifies radiation damage.  Researchers at the Univ. of
>North Carolina, Chapel HIll (919-962-2091), and the Univ. of Alberta,
>Canada, have developed a test for genetic damage caused by ionizing
>radiation and carcinogens.  The test is 10,000 to 100,000 times more
>sensitive than other assays.  It uses antibodies that recognize specific
>kinds of DNA damage linked to fluorescent antibodies."
>
>Does anyone know anything about this?

The paper in question is found in Science Vol. 280 (15 May 1998) 1066-1069.
There's a comment in the same issue at pages 1101-1102 under the title
"Zeptomolar damage".

If I remember correct the paper was recently discussed here on RADSAFE.


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