Monica Pujol-Canadell

TL;DR: It is found that human blood cells in the hematopoietically humanized mouse in vivo environment recapitulated the gene expression pattern expected from human cells, not the pattern seen from in vivo irradiated normal mice.

TL;DR: Modifications of the standard CBMN assay to increase its accuracy following exposures to higher doses of photons or a mixed neutron–photon beam permit reliable dose reconstruction after high doses of radiation with a method that can be adapted to high-throughput automated sample processing systems.

TL;DR: The VADER (VAriable Dose-rate External 137Cs irradiatoR) allows modeling these exposures, bypassing many of the problems inherent in internal emitter studies.

TL;DR: A VAriable Dose-rate External 137 Cs irradiatoR (VADER), which can provide arbitrarily varying and progressive low-dose rate irradiations in the range of 0.1–1.2 Gy/day, while circumventing the complexities of dealing with radioactively contaminated biomaterials is developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors implemented machine learning in the radiation biodosimetry field to quantitatively reconstruct neutron doses in mixed neutron+photon exposures, which are expected in improvised nuclear device detonations.