Nobel Laureate Martin Rodbell dies

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Martin Rodbell, Ph.D., died 12/7/98 after a long and distinguished career at the National Institutes of Health and elsewhere involving both research and senior leadership positions related to physiology, pharmacology and environmental health. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994 with Alfred Gilman, of the Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas for work on G-proteins, key in the communication system that regulates activity of the cell.

Obituary, Achievements and awards, Cellular signal transduction, Nobel laureates, Pharmacology, Nobel Foundation, Physiologists, Rodbell, Martin

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Exposure to indoor background radiation and urinary concentrations of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine, a marker of oxidative DNA damage

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Research presented concerns the relationship between exposure to indoor gamma radiation and radon on DNA damage, measured in the form of increased urinary concentrations of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG). Findings suggest that indoor radioactivity is positively correlated with levels of (8-OHdG), and appear higher in females, possibly influenced by longer time spent indoors.

Sweden, Health aspects, Statistical Data Included, Environmental aspects, DNA damage, Radon, Gamma rays

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The when, where, and how of environmental hazards

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Scientists discuss the merits of various methods and models for predicting environmental harm. Many propose creating partnerships between policy makers and scientists, and depending on extensive geological research, for the selecting of nuclear waste dumps, and the mediation of similar environmental hazards and polluting activities.

United States, Environmental protection

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