{"id":1041,"date":"2016-10-31T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2017-03-26T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T00:40:17","slug":"genetic-radiation-exposure-test-prepares-for-fda-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Radiation Exposure Test Prepares for FDA Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/387370\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/35\/Logo_iso_radiation.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>Seventy-plus years into the Atomic Age, the United States still lacks a good radiation-dosage test.<\/p>\n<p>But the ASU Radiation Biodosimetry Test (ARad), a device being developed by Arizona State University\u2019s Biodesign Institute, could soon help doctors triage victims of a nuclear attack by gauging their exposure to ionizing radiation via changes in gene expression.<\/p>\n<p>ARad is one of only a few tests under development that can detect radiation exposure levels. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/387370\" target=\"_blank\">ASU Radiation Test Uses Genes To Triage Nuclear Attack Victims<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-plus years into the Atomic Age, the United States still lacks a good radiation-dosage test. But the ASU Radiation Biodosimetry Test (ARad), a device being developed by Arizona State University\u2019s Biodesign Institute, could soon help doctors triage victims of a nuclear attack by gauging their exposure to ionizing radiation via changes in gene expression. ARad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1041\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genetic Radiation Exposure Test Prepares for FDA Evaluation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,94,84,82,67,3,13,93],"tags":[1167,1141,1166,476,1169,68,1165,1168],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-health","category-medicine","category-science","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-contamination","tag-epigenetics","tag-exposure","tag-expression","tag-gray","tag-pathology","tag-radiation","tag-triage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}