OR some time it has been generally considered that the production of F chromosomal aberrations in Tradescantia and many other materials is essentially independent of the wave length of the exciting radiation in the region shorter than 1.5 A. This view has not been seriously questioned in recent years and to date has remained one of the fundamental tenets of radiobiology. A number of isolated in...

background: the thyroid gland absorbs nearly all the iodine in the blood, independently of its isotopic composition. when a large enough activity of radioactive iodine like 131i, 132i, 133i is taken into the body, it can destroy the healthy thyroid gland cells as well as the cancer’s cells. in fact, as it is well known, some isotopes of iodine are used not only for acquiring thyroid images but ...