Cells are destroyed by radiation either because they sustain so much genetic damage that they cannot replicate or because the radiation induces apoptosis (programmed cell death).
The doctors said that her heart had been destroyed by radiation.
The blood-forming stem cells rescued mice whose own bone marrow cells had been destroyed by radiation.
They have taken mouse embryonic stem cells, converted them to blood-forming cells, and injected the cells into mice whose own bone marrow has been destroyed by radiation.
Spices as Shields They are not suggesting that a meal of chicken vindaloo might be the best protection in the event of World War III, but scientists in India have made the intriguing discovery that certain spices can prevent bacteria from being destroyed by radiation.
They injected bone marrow cells from adult mice into mice whose marrow had been destroyed with radiation.
A team led by Andreea Ianus of New York University transplanted bone marrow cells from male mice into female mice whose marrow had been destroyed by radiation.
Adark are reserve stem cells that, in the adult, rarely divide and are activated when spermatogenesis is destroyed by radiation (van Alphen and de Rooij, 1986).
Additional evidence that CCD is an infectious disease came from the following observations: the hives of colonies that had died from CCD could be reused with a healthy colony only if they were first treated with DNA-destroying radiation, and the CCD Working Group report in 2010 indicated that CCD-exhibiting hives tended to occur in proximity to one another within apiaries.
The modern approach is to cut out obvious tumors — because lumps big enough to detect may be too dense for drugs and radiation to destroy — and to use radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out microscopic disease in other places.
This demonstrates that the chemical-coated filter component plays a more significant role than the UV radiation in destroying phages.
