Article: New findings in life sciences described by A.D. da Cruz and co-researchers.

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Microsatellite mutations in the offspring of irradiated parents 19 years after the Cesium-137 accident.' "In September of 1987, a radiotherapy unit containing 50.9 TBq of Cs(137)Cl was removed from an abandoned radiotherapy clinic. This unit was subsequently disassembled leading to the most serious radiological accident yet to occur in the Western hemisphere," scientists in Goiania, Brazil report (see also Life Sciences).

"This event provides an opportunity to assess the genetic effects of ionizing radiation. We surveyed genetic variation of 12 microsatellite loci in 10 families of exposed individuals and their ...

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