Hamburgers with radiation

The Department of Health U.S. government has gone one step further in his defence of the environment and nuclear company. Fearing spread of viruses resistant to antibiotics and evil "of mad cow disease", will be allowed to display the raw meat before turning it into hamburger for consumption of the average citizen.

It is intended that this destruction upon the elements of living of the meat has no impact on the body through ingestion, and that radiation levels in beef are normal.

The pressure of public opinion and the reports of several American universities collide with arguments in favour of nuclear irradiation.
We choose a lesser evil but it opens the door to experiments in man whose consequences can not be calculated at present.

Environmental Radioactivity

The Laboratory of Environmental Radioactivity has targets that complement its lines of work about the environment:

• Measure and assess levels of radioactivity in the national environment, including the location and environment of research reactors that exist in the country.

• Evaluate the exposure of humans to radioactive products present in the environment.

• adequate information on monitoring radioamblental.

• quality control radiological high consumption of food and certification of products exported to the request for outside users.

• Measuring the environmental factors that are part of the food chain and incorporated elements radioambientales in humans by inhalation.

Take sun and get a good tan

Always Keep in mind these recommendations when it comes to exposing oneself to the sun.

Always use sunscreen. We recommend placing solar screens in the area of the eyelids and on the path naso geniano (which runs from nose to the angle of the mouth) because there we found a much thinner skin.

The area of the mouth must also be protected with bars with lip protection.

The eyes should be protected with dark glasses and should never look directly at the sun. Presentations too intense, favor the aging of the lens and heighten the risk of cataracts.

The hair is also damaged and thus requires special care. There are special creams for use in hair before sun exposure.

It is advisable to listen to the weather forecast to know what the rate of solar radiation in the day when we feel exposed to the sun. Also, we will know what level of protection we will use.

Regarding the position for sunbathing, the horizontal is the most damaging. It is recommended to be the shortest possible time lying in the sun. The best sun can take walking or doing any sport.

We should bear in mind also that when summer somewhere in the heights sun is closer and the atmospheric layer is weaker protectors require special and specific.

We sunbathing away from the noon hours that are more solar radiation.

Pay special attention and care to children, their skin is very sensitive to sunlight. Apply it sunscreen, and children under one year avoids taking them to the beach, since only the glow of the sand affects your skin and it is not advisable to spread the baby with protectors.

With these precautions, you can enjoy much better your vacation and your family, winning in quality of life for all.

T-ray radiation unknown

This piece of paper, like any object found at a given temperature, emits a broad spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. It highlights one that is virtually unknown to us: the terahercios, who are immediately below the infrared and just above the microwave.

Named after the frequency range in which it is the trillion hertz Greek tera-prefix is used to name the driver of value-so astronomical. The frequency is the number of oscillations occurring in a second; imagine that we stand on a mat at sea and waves us
are going up and down as they pass below.
The frequency would be the number of times up and down in a second, so that the shorter the distance between crests-the-wavelength, the higher the frequency.

The radiation terahercio, also known as T-rays or light T overlooked in our eyes because their incidence is 300 times smaller than the limit of human vision. Nor can we feel, as it happens with infrared, which provide us with heat. The reason is obvious: the intensity total emitted by all frequencies below a terahercio is less than
millionth of a watt per square centimeter. This area of the spectrum is relatively unknown because it was not until the mid-90 when it was able to produce and detect in the laboratory. In fact, until 2002 has not been able to generate a brush of this radiation with an average power of 20 W.

The expectations he has raised are immense, especially in medicine, because it shares with microwaves its ability to cross many conductors of electricity materials not-paper, textiles, ceramics, plastics ...- and has the advantage that, being not ionizing, it does not produce DNA damage as if it happens to X-ray

It is hoped that eventually replacing the current mammograms and is effective in the detection of epithelial cancers.
Another application would be the detection of weapons and plastic explosives, since many of them possess a fingerprint feature in this frequency range.

Electromagnetic contamination

The three factors of risk that show up the computers are the radiations, the static electricity and the ionization. The technical advances, they have gotten that the current screens diminished the radiations considerably. Starting from some studios carried out in Sweden, where you were observed an increment of the leukemia, brain tumors and other similar pathologies among the exposed population to more than 200 nanoteslas (NT), the normative one arose recommended so that the monitors didn't emit more than 200 NT at a distance of 30 centimeters.

The screens that appear in the market with the label of low radiation, are adjusted to this border. Although the user continues receiving a dose, you are inside what are the factor stress, but not of more serious pathologies.

This recommendation became international with the initials MPRII that guarantee a monitor of low radiations.

The static electricity is a simpler problem of solving. The conventional computers must have a good installation of taking of earth, since the user receives great quantity of static electricity that boost the body until causing nerve disorders, anxiety or irritability, arriving to even to the depression.

Several professionals in the area, sustain that the solution this in the plugs shuco (as those that are used for the appliances), with a good one taking of earth. If thieves are used, they have to be of continuity of taking of earth. The anti-static filters don't serve as anything if that good connection doesn't exist.

The printers emit radiations, but only when they are working. You are enough with which they are to a meter and half of distance so that the radiations don't reach the user. If you are arranged above the table, you suit to unplug it when you are not using.

The air has also you load electric positive and negative. The radiations make that these you descompensen with a positive ionization and the environment loses quality.

Actual medicine against the radiation

The damages inflicted by the radiation are one of the most terrifying aspects in a nuclear, but much more common catastrophe, the patients of cancer suffer the uncomfortable effects (that they revolve you the tripes) of the radiation that are administered in an attempt of to kill to the tumor and to save the life. In what certain scientist has described as a "moment eureka", they have just imagined a new drug that have turned out to be a you arm potential very viable in the fight against the cancer and in nuclear emergencies.

Andrei Gudkov that work in the Institute Against Cancer Roswell Park, CBLB502, code that act has developed like name in this new drug that you protect to the healthy cells of the damages even caused by the radiation when this you go killing the cancer cells. The moment eureka arrived when Gudkov had the idea of putting one from the cagey tricks characteristic of the cancer to work of our side.

The trick is the apoptosis, or cellular suicide. When you are exposed to healthy cells to the radiation, even to dose that produce damages that can be fixed, that they make these instead of solving the damages you are to commit suicide. The cells of the spinal cord and those of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are particularly vulnerable.

The cells of the cancer, however, use several means to lock the apoptosis, that which allow that the cancerous tumors continue growing. One in the ways that use to lock the cellular suicide is the activation of an on the way to regulation known as NFKB, or factor-KappaB nuclear.

Imitating this trick of the tumor, Gudkov and your colleagues were able to lock the apoptosis in healthy tissues after having inserted flagelina, a protein elaborated starting from bacteria, in the tract GI stops this way to activate the road NFKB.

Then they administered your experimental drug based on flagelina in rhesus monkey and mice before exposing the animals (full-length) to similar radiation lethal dose to those that could receive during an emergency for nuclear leak. The drug, was administered between 15 minutes and one hour before the exhibition to the radiation.

The notable result of this experiment was that the spinal cord and the tract GI of these animals was protected of the typical destruction that cause the radiation, without visible side effects also took place. But what are even more excitant, is that the cancer cells died, such and like you were wanted, for the radiation treatment.

When the drug was administered based on flagelina to the mice one hour after receiving the high radiation doses, your percent of survival improved although the protection of the tissue was not as spectacular as when they were administered before the radioactive exhibition.

Gudkov has founded a company, Cleveland Biolabs Inc, with the objective of taking out this drug to the market. Your intention is to begin to use it so much in anticancer therapies like in biodefensa means. The Ministry of Defense of U.S. you are one of the several estamentos and government agencies that it finance the investigation.