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"When considering the hazards of space exploration, moon dust might not top your list But contact with lunar soil can wreak havoc on human health To better understand the toxicological properties of the dust researchers exposed neuronal and lung epithelial cell lines to samples of simulated lunar soil The samples caused widespread cell death and DNA damage in both cell lines Intriguingly, although the simulants generated free radicals their presence wasn’t correlated to the damaging impact on the cells leaving the precise mechanism of injury a mystery While the properties of actual lunar soil may differ from those of the simulants the work provides an important starting point towards understanding the biological effects brought about by visiting the moon... and maybe beyond Caston et al. (2018) Assessing Toxicity and Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Damage Caused by Exposure of Mammalian Cells to Lunar Regolith Simulants..."
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- Subject:
- Astronomy
- Biology
- Life Science
- Physical Science
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
- Reading
- Provider:
- Research Square
- Provider Set:
- Video Bytes
- Date Added:
- 09/20/2019