March 29th, 2012
Our March 2012 podcast features an interview with Dr. Eric G. Wright, senior author of the paper entitled Bystander-Type Effects Mediated by Long-Lived Inflammatory Signaling in Irradiated Bone Marrow. The interview is hosted by Marjan Boerma.

Dr. Eric G. Wright, Centre for Oncology and Molecular Medicine,
University of Dundee Medical School, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tags: Bystander effects, DNA damage, Low-LET
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February 29th, 2012

Protection of DNA against ionizing radiation - Milligan [18:11m]:
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Our February 2012 podcast features an interview with Dr. Jamie Milligan, senior author of the paper entitled Modeling the Influence of Histone Proteins on the Sensitivity of DNA to Ionizing Radiation. The interview is hosted by Sylvain Costes.

Dr. Jamie R. Milligan, Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego
Tags: chromatin, Countermeasures, DNA damage, Low-LET
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February 29th, 2012

the January 2012 RR podcast:
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mp3: Thierry-Chef and Simon, January 2012
Our January2012 podcast features an interview with Isabelle Thierry-Chef, first author of the paper entitled Reconstruction of Absorbed Doses to Fibroglandular Tissue of the Breast of Women Undergoing Mammography (1960 to the Present), together with her co-author Steven Simon. The interview is hosted by Marjan Boerma.

Isabelle Thierry-Chef and Steven L. Simon
Tags: Absorbed dose, Cancer risk, Mammography
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January 11th, 2012

Interview with Dr. Goske on Image Gently Campaign [27:30m]:
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This month’s edition of the Radiation Research Podcast features Dr. Marilyn Goske from the Department of Radiology at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. This is a special issue on discussing the recent campaign Image Gently, which is an initiative of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging.

Marilyn Goske, M.D.
- The Alliance goal is to change practice: to raise awareness of the opportunities to lower radiation dose in the imaging of children.
- The Alliance strategy to meet the goal is straightforward information provided to every member of the care team.

Message from Dr. Goske: “Please go to www.imagegently.org today to pledge, it is free and you will receive our quarterly newsletter with campaign updates”
Tags: Campaign, Radiology, Risk reduction
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January 11th, 2012

Siegal Sadetzki and Angela Chetrit [28:31m]:
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Our November 2011 podcast features an interview with Siegal Sadetzki and Angela Chetrit, co-authors, with other colleagues both in Israel and the USA, of the paper entitled Childhood Exposure to Ionizing Radiation to the Head and Risk of Schizophrenia. The interview is hosted by Massimo Pinto.
Siegal Sadetzki and Angela Chetrit
Linked to the subject of this interview, and coming up shortly, our December issue will be a a special issue on the Image Gently campaign, an initiative of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, with an interview hosted by Sylvain Costes.
Tags: Brain damage
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November 18th, 2011

The October 2011 Radiation Research podcast [27:17m]:
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A time-lapse microscopy video of coronary endothelial cells, irradiated as a monolayer with 5 Gy gamma rays. [00:24m]:
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This month’s edition of the Radiation Research Podcast features Vered Anzenberg’s News minute, with some highlights from a College of Medicine study of viral infection of breast cancer cells at various stages of development, and an interview with Erik Young, hosted by Marjan Boerma.
Columbia University researchers Erik Young and Lubomir Smilenov (pictured below) are co-authors of the paper entitled Impedance-Based Surveillance of Transient Permeability Changes in Coronary Endothelial Monolayers after Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, appearing in the October issue of Radiation Research.

Erik Young and Lubomir Smilenov, Columbia University.
Tags: Cardiovascular effects
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November 17th, 2011

Mark Hill interviewed for the September 2011 podcast:
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Welcome to the September 2011 Radiation Research podcast. This month, Vered’s news minute highlights a new international video contest launched by…YouTube. Following, Massimo interviews Mark Hill, from Oxford University and last author of the paper entitled The Role of Radiation Quality in the Stimulation of Intercellular Induction of Apoptosis in Transformed Cells at Very Low Doses.
Authors of this month’s featured paper include Dr Abdelrazek Abdelrazzak (left), Dr Mark Hill (middle), and Dr Peter O’ Neill (right).
Happy listening!
Tags: Apoptosis
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September 26th, 2011
The interview of the month is with Marc Mendonca from Department of Radiation Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the author of the paper Differential Mechanisms of X-Ray-Induced Cell Death in Human Endothelial Progenitor Cells Isolated from Cord Blood and Adults.

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Tags: Cell death
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August 8th, 2011

The July 2011 Radiation Research Podcast:
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The interview of the month is with Camille Metz-Flamant from the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the first author of the paper entitled: Solid Cancer Mortality Associated with Chronic External Radiation Exposure at the French Atomic Energy Commission and Nuclear Fuel Company.

Camille Metz-Flamant and Sylvaine Caër-Lorho, the third author of the paper.
Vered’s News Minute discusses how inverting a standard experiment sometimes produces different results, particularly with nanoparticles… Happy listening!
Tags: Cancer risk
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August 1st, 2011

Interview with Joel Greenberger [34:41m]:
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The interview of the month is with Dr. Joel Greenberger, of University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, last author of the paper entitled: Antioxidant-Chemoprevention Diet Ameliorates Late Effects of Total-Body Irradiation and Supplements Radioprotection by MnSOD-Plasmid Liposome Administration.

Joel Greenberger, from University of Pittsburgh Cancer Center.
Tags: Antioxidants, Oxidative stress
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