Children are more sensitive to radiation than older people.
The younger children are, the more sensitive to radiation.
The only public epidemic consists of high rates of thyroid cancer in children, whose glands are particularly sensitive to radiation.
Certain body parts and certain people are more sensitive to radiation.
Cancer cells are more sensitive to radiation than are healthy cells because they are continuously proliferating.
For the same reason, the blood-forming cells in bone marrow are also sensitive to radiation.
Moreover, children and pregnant women are known to be especially sensitive to radiation.
Some cells, such as those that divide actively, are particularly sensitive to radiation.
They report in a paper published online by the journal Science that D. radiodurans accumulates more manganese and far less iron than bacteria that are sensitive to radiation.
Detectors on the telescope would also be sensitive to radiation that is much farther into the infrared, or long-wavelength, part of the spectrum than Hubble can see.
He showed that a few of these were exquisitely sensitive to radiation, preferring to "commit suicide" by a process known as apoptosis, rather than attempting to repair damage to their DNA.
