NASA to Start Irradiating Monkeys

NASA is stepping up its space radiation studies with a round of experiments that for the first time in decades will use monkeys as subjects. "Obviously, the closer we get to man, the better," added Eleanor Blakely, a biophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies radiation-induced cataracts. The radiation exposures will take place at NASA's Space Radiation Laboratory at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. More>