http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/927 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/common-aquatic-animals-show-extreme-resistance-radiation <!--paging_filter--><p>Harvard scientists have found that a common class of freshwater invertebrate animals called <a title="" href="http://www.micrographia.com/specbiol/rotife/homebdel/bdel0100.htm">bdelloid rotifers</a> are extraordinarily resistant to <a title="" href="http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/about/what_is_ir/en/index.html">ionizing radiation</a>, surviving and continuing to reproduce after doses of <a title="" href="http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Physics/gamma.htm">gamma radiation</a> much greater than that tolerated by any other animal species studied to date.</p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/common-aquatic-animals-show-extreme-resistance-radiation">read more</a></p> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:39:40 -0400 404132862 20208 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/anthrax-expert-matthew-meselson-speaks-out <!--paging_filter--><p>In 1992-93, Harvard Professor Matthew Meselson investigated the largest known outbreak of inhalation anthrax in history, which occurred in the Soviet Union in 1979. The anthrax was accidentally released from a Russian military facility. Meselson and his co-researchers documented the deaths of 66 people, and found 11 who survived. In the wake of cases of anthrax being sent through the mail in 2001, Meselson addressed what information being released through the news media was accurate and what should be questioned. Among the interesting points of information that Meselson offered in an interview was that young people seemed to not be affected by airborne anthrax. "We checked reports from all over the world, but could find no cases of younger people being infected by inhalation anthrax.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/anthrax-expert-matthew-meselson-speaks-out">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:16:43 -0400 70652986 3064 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu