Pilula protiv radijacije

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Anti-Rad u rl

"Radiation sickness drug in the form of carbon nanotubes gets DARPA's attention

"More than half of those who suffer acute radiation injury die within 30 days, not from the initial radioactive particles themselves but from the devastation they cause in the immune system, the gastrointestinal tract and other parts of the body. Ideally, we'd like to develop a drug that can be administered within 12 hours of exposure and prevent deaths from what are currently fatal exposure doses of ionizing radiation," explains James Tour, Rice University's Chao Professor of Chemistry and director of Rice's Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory.

Tour and his colleagues have been awarded a $540,000 grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to do further research on a carbon nanotube (CNT) based drug for the treatment of radiation sickness.

Radiation sickness is so deadly because the ionizing affect of radiation alters the balance between protons and electrons in molecules. The process often creates free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules and in the case of radiation poisoning, cause disruption in living cells. The disruption often triggers a domino effect, propagating widespread damage throughout the organism's physiology.

Unlike Rensselaer Polytechnic's CNT-based cancer, disease and toxin treatment, which creates reactive oxygen to disable target proteins, Tour's group's Nanovector Trojan Horses (NTH) soaks up the harmful free radicals created by radiation poisoning. To make the simple drug, single walled CNTs are coated with two common food preservatives, butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene. Tour explains that the same properties that make the compounds good preservatives, their ability to soak up free radicals, also makes them ideal for the treatment of radiation exposure and sickness.

In the lab, the NTH treatment has been tested on mice and was shown to enhance protection when the mice were exposed to lethal doses of ionizing radiation when given the drug prior to exposure. Though the tests were not done as a treatment for exposure, DARPA took an interest in the technique and awarded the group with the grant, which specifies a very short nine-month study. "They are very interested in finding out whether this will work in a post-exposure delivery, and they don't want to waste any time," said Tour.

NTH shows great promise, preliminary testing showing the drug to be more than 5,000 times more effective at mitigating the effects of radiation injury than most available drugs. Tour's group is also looking into the possibility of NTH being useful in preventing the harmful side effects of radiation therapy for cancer patients.

The carbon-sink anti-radiation pill was proposed in Tim Cain's 1997 computer game Fallout.

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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10490

[Pekarman]

Ma koliko bio odusevljen sto nauka ide napred mene vise brine cinjenica da "DARPA ne zeli da gubi vreme" u razvijanju ovog leka. Zemlja koja je druga po broju nuklearnih projektila zeli da razvije lek koji ce omoguciti da iste ispali na nekog znaju ci da trupe koje budu ozracene mogu da se izlece ne brine nikog osim mene ?

[cali]

Ma koliko bio odusevljen sto nauka ide napred mene vise brine cinjenica da "DARPA ne zeli da gubi vreme" u razvijanju ovog leka. Zemlja koja je druga po broju nuklearnih projektila zeli da razvije lek koji ce omoguciti da iste ispali na nekog znaju ci da trupe koje budu ozracene mogu da se izlece ne brine nikog osim mene ?

s obzirom da poseduju "daisy cuttere" koji se po razornosti izjednachavaju sa nuklearkama, ne moramo se previshe brinuti. pogotovu shto pilule umanjuju efekat ozrachenja, ne daju trupama imunitet.

btw hejt za oblivion lovere koji su mi obrisali prethodni post :P

[MaudDib]

josh samo da izmisle novu kozhu, ochi, kosu, nokte, zube i ostalo shto otpade od radijacije i dojaja :)

[G!!!]

zapravo daisy cutter blu82 ima snagu koja je manja od hiljaditog dela jednog Little Boy-a

ali da je najjacha konvecionalna bomba, jeste - bila :) kada su rusi napravili bombicu od 8 tona lol i za koju se (nezvanichno) tvrdi da je 4 puta jacha od gbu43 varijante koja se razvija od 2002. (spada u grupu "smart bombs" navodece jel te) u kooperaciji usa&uk i koja naslednik daisy cuttera i koja neodoljivo podseca na V-1 iz ww2 (a i kako i ne bi)

enivej ono sto je jos interesantno je da su ameri i britanski gejevi imali bombicu koja je proizvodila efekat zemljotresa i u glavnom je pravljena za penetriranje velikih bunkera kao sto smo ih mi pravili u iraku :) (btw upozao sam jednog inzenjera koji je radio na tim projektim, choveche kakve price) ... ono sto je interesantno za ovu malenu T12 je da bila teshka citavih 20 tona :P