A fascinating new study published in Science has claimed that specific gut bacteria can potentially offset fatal levels of radiation exposure. The discovery is the latest in a string of studies that have suggested the microbiome has an incredible effect on health.
Accidental exposure, cancer radiotherapy, and targeted radiation attacks have made headlines over the years for their gruesome effects on the human body, including illness and death. Accidental exposure has in particular claimed the imagination with much of the public after the tragedy of Chernobyl in 1986. However, the most common reason behind radio-exposure remains due to cancer-related treatment.
“Substantial federal efforts have been made to mitigate acute radiation symptoms — however, it remains a long-standing and unresolved problem,” said corresponding author Jenny P.Y. Ting, PhD, William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics in the UNC School of Medicine and a UNC Lineberger immunology program co-leader, per Science Daily.
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