Background: Very little was known about the molecular pathogenesis of thyroid cancer until
the late 1980s. As part of the Centennial celebration of the American Thyroid Association …

Increasing evidence suggests that urbanization is associated with higher mutation rates,
which can affect the health and evolution of organisms that inhabit cities. Elevated pollution …

The 1986 disaster at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant transformed the surrounding
region into the most radioactive landscape known on the planet. Whether or not this sudden …

Advanced paternal age is associated with an increased risk of fathering children with
genetic disorders and other adverse reproductive consequences. However, the mechanisms …

This document presents the ICRP's updated vision on “Areas of Research to Support the
System of Radiological Protection”, which have been previously published in 2017. It aims to …

Personal protective equipment (PPE) with wear comfort and radiation protection safety are of
immense significance to human personnel in radiation environments. Unfortunately, current …

Abstract Purpose The Sex Differences in Radiation Research workshop addressed the role
of sex as a confounder in radiation research and its implication in real-world radiological …

During life, the DNA of our cells is continuously exposed to external damaging processes.
Despite the activity of various repair mechanisms, DNA damage eventually results in the …

The potential germline effects of radiation exposure to military veterans present at British
nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific is of considerable interest. We analyzed …

Over the past 30 years (the timespan of a generation), advances in genomics technologies
have revealed tremendous and unexpected variation in the human genome and have …