June 2010: The Golden Age for Radiotherapy?

June 23rd, 2010
 
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Welcome to the June 2010 issue of the Radiation Research Podcast.

Main authors for June 2010 Rad Res Podcast

Drs. Devika B. Chithrani and David A. Jaffray from the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada are interviewed about their work on novel approaches to radiosensitize cells. Our conversation is based on their article published in the June issue of Radiation Research: Gold Nanoparticles as Radiation Sensitizers in Cancer Therapy.

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May 2010: How Do Mitochondrial Mutant Cells Respond to Radiation?

June 11th, 2010
 
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Welcome to the May 2010 issue of the Radiation Research Podcast.

Authors of the month: Drs. Rohan Kulkarni and James Tucker

This months “News Minute with Vered” focuses on the odd story of the classification of the tomato as a vegetable.

Drs. Rohan Kulkarni and James Tucker are interviewed about their work on the response of mitochondrial mutant cells to genotoxic stresses such as ionizing radiation. Our conversation is based on their article published in the May issue of Radiation Research: Mitochondrial Gene Expression Changes in Normal and Mitochondrial Mutant Cells after Exposure to Ionizing Radiation.

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April 2010: Microvessel damage

June 10th, 2010
 
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Welcome to the April 2010 issue of the Radiation Research Podcast.

Authors of this month’s article:
Xiao Wen Mao (pictured in the center), Cecile J. Favre (right), John R. Fike, Lucie Kubinova, Ella Anderson, Mary Campbell-Beachler, Tamako Jones, Anna Smith, Steven Rightnar, and Gregory A. Nelson (pictured left)

This months “News Minute with Vered” covers up the story of the origin of the Lab coat, and its colour.

Dr. Xiao Wen Mao was interviewed about their work on the response of microvessels in the hippocampus after high-LET radiation. The conversation is based on their article published in the April issue of Radiation Research: High-LET radiation-induced response of microvessels in the Hippocampus.

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March 2010: The Decreasing Dose Rate Effect

April 2nd, 2010
 
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Welcome to the March 2010 Radiation Research Podcast.


Authors of this month’s article:
Karl Brehwens, Andrzej Wojcik, Siamak Haghdoost, Elina Staaf

We begin our podcast with a “News Minute with Vered”, who discusses the nominees for the Nobel Peace prize for 2010.  Will we win this year?  This month our interview is with Karl Brehwens and Andrzej Wojcik and discusses their article: Cytogenetic Damage in Cells Exposed to Ionizing Radiation under Conditions of a Changing Dose Rate.  The authors used a setup in which cells, kept at a constant temperature, moved to and from an X-ray source to expose them to a changing dose rate, as shown in their video: Experimental setup of Karl Brehwens and colleagues.

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February 2010: An Adoptive Transfer Method to Detect Low-Dose Radiation-Induced Bystander Effects In Vivo

March 16th, 2010
 
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Welcome to the February 2010 Radiation Research Podcast interview.

Benjamin Blyth and Pamela Sykes

This months “News Minute with Vered” briefly reviews the recently published book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. Henrietta Lacks is the donor of the cells that became the original immortal cell line that most of us know as HeLa cells. Our interview of the month is with Dr. Benjamin Blyth and Prof. Pamela Sykes on their recently published article discussing a method to detect bystander effects in vivo induced by low dose radiation.

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January 2010: Late residual DNA damage markers in vivo

February 26th, 2010
 
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Welcome to the January 2010 issue of the Radiation Research Podcast.

Nirmal Bhogal and Robert Bristow

Nirmal Bhogal and Robert Bristow

Our interview of the month is with Robert Bristow, in which we discuss his recent work which appeared in the January issue of the Journal. The paper is entitled Late Residual γ-H2AX Foci In Murine Skin are Dose Responsive and Predict Radiosensitivity In Vivo no access

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Mitochondrial dysfunction and genomic instability: chicken or egg?

December 24th, 2009
 
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Dayal and Spitz

Disha Dayal and Doug Spitz

Welcome to the December issue of the Radiation Research Podcast. In this issue, Vered’s News Minute introduces our new jingles, written and performed by Solarpunch.

Our interview of the month is to Disha Dayal (pictured on the left) and Douglas Spitz (pictured on the right), to discuss about their recent work appeared in the December issue of the Journal, of which they are first and last authors, respectively. The paper is entitled Mitochondrial Complex II Dysfunction Can Contribute Significantly to Genomic Instability after Exposure to Ionizing Radiation.

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Happy festive season to all our listeners!

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November 2009 Podcast: The Potentials of Tumor Oximetry and Cell Cycle Checkpoint Inhibition

December 14th, 2009
 
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Welcome to the November issue of the Radiation Research podcast!

In this issue, Vered’s News Minute focuses on the risks of radiation exposure from multiple X-ray imaging tests.

The interview of the month is with Drs. Khan and Eastman from The Dartmouth Medical School and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, describing the potentials of tumor pO2 measurements and the use of cell cycle checkpoint inhibitors in cancer treatment. This discussion is based on their article that appeared in the November issue of Radiation Research: Radiotherapy in Conjunction with 7-Hydroxystaurosporine: A Multimodal Approach with Tumor pO2 as a Potential Marker of Therapeutic Response

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The other side of approved drugs: in search of radioprotectors

December 2nd, 2009
 
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The October 2009 episode is curated by Marjan Boerma and features her interview with Dr. Joel Greenberger on hunting for radioprotector drugs using short interfering RNA screening. The title of the featured paper is Synthetic Protection Short Interfering RNA Screen Reveals Glyburide as a Novel Radioprotector.

Introducing this issue, Vered’s News Minute highlights some of the popular science books that received an award from the Royal Society this year.

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The 2009 Bacq and Alexander Award: Sisko Salomaa

November 5th, 2009
 
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Sisko Salomaa Sisko Salomaa from STUK, the Finnish Nuclear Safety Authority, is the winner of the 2009 Bacq and Alexander Award. Massimo met her in Prague, Czech Republic, last August at the 37th annual meeting of the European Society for Radiation Research, and discussed with her about her research career.

Find out more about Sisko Salomaa’s career in the radiation sciences on the STUK website.

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