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This is a really phenomenal mouse study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914272 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914272 It's so bizarre that it won't
by narrator 10y ago
This is a really phenomenal mouse study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914272 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914272
It's so bizarre that it won't get followed up. I spend a lot of time digging in pubmed and when I find stuff like this, nobody cares. It's too cheap of a solution and not patentable. It will be forgotten because 95% of people will scoff at the result. It's simply too miraculous to be believed.
- Symmetry 10y agoIf that was just a single result I'd scoff too but it was following up on some earlier indications of the same thing so I agree it needs to be investigated more. Still, it appears to be entirely unrelated to radiation tolerance.
- narrator 10y agoFrom the previously mentioned study: "It was found that 2-week C(60)(OH)(24) pretreatment effectively reduced whole body irradiation-induced mortality without apparent toxicity." Am I reading that wrong? That seems to say that mice that got the pretreatment with C60 were less likely to die of radiation poisoning than controls and there was no observed toxicity. That's a pretty astonishing result. This study even has several further studies that cite it, so it seems that there's some followup going on.