Space Radiation and Cataracts

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Eleanor Blakely, radiation biologist of the Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been a scientist at Berkeley Lab since 1975. She is studying the effect of radiation on cataracts which concerns not only cancer patients, but also astronauts. As astronauts spend increasingly longer time in space, the effects of cosmic radiation exposure will become an increasingly important health issue- yet there is little human data on these effects. Blakely reviews this emerging field and the contributions made at Berkeley Lab.

More information about Eleanor Blakely can be found at:
http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences/CMB/Blakely.html

Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:
http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences/main/index.html

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.lbl.gov/

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Standard Category: Biology/Life Sciences
Cell Biology

Series: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Summer Lecture Series
http://www.uctv.tv/series/index.asp?show=show&seriesnumber=41

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