Welcome to Our Blog
Thank you for visiting our website. We are a relatively small lab with big ideas. We are part of a much larger group of investigators known collectively as the LLUMC Molecular Radiation Biology Laboratories. It is our hope that this website will educate, communicate, and incite scientific debate. As the PI of our little group, I hope to post our data and discuss potential mechanisms, consequences, and countermeasures. With a bit of luck we'll all learn something. The links to the left include our merry band as well as collaborating investigators and laboratories. The links to the right include our archive and blogroll. The banner above will always bring you back to the main page page. Take a look around and please feel free to leave a comment on our blog (try to keep it civil and constructive) or shoot us an e-mail. - Michael " Ubertramp " Pecaut
China and Spaceflight
Posted by: Ubertramp on 2008.09.27
Categories & Tags: Brookhaven National Laboratory,China,Current Events,Politics
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It looks like China is jumping into the space race in a big way. Of course, they released a triumphant press release even before the launch. So who knows if we’ll ever hear what’s really happening up there. But no matter what happens, I look on this as a good thing. Hopefully, with other players in the game that might not always have our best interests at heart, the people making decisions about space-related research will wake up and realize that we can easily fall behind without sufficient funding. Nothing like a little bit of competition to shake things up. I just hope that whoever wins the next election understands this.
BTW, here’s Obama’s Plan. And here is McCain’s Plan.
Update from the Lab
Posted by: Ubertramp on 2008.09.06
Categories & Tags: BioServe Space Technologies,Brookhaven National Laboratory,Grant,International Space Station,NASA,New Publication,Politics,Russian Space Agency,Space Shuttle
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We’ve been pretty busy in the lab lately. We had yet another publication appear in PubMed, sent off multiple publications to journals for review, and ran a couple of big experiments. On top of that, I moved to a new house, so I’ve been less than useful in the lab for the last couple of months.
The publication in PubMed is from one of our earlier studies investigating the effects of radiation on the ability to respond to an immune challenge. In this case, it was a secondary challenge – meaning, we challenged the mice twice. Once immediately after irradiation. And once several weeks later. In essence, we were checking to see if radiation altered the development of basic immune memory. Here’s the abstract:
