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Operating under the umbrella of Dr. Gayle Wolschak's laboratory at Northwestern University, the Northwestern University Radiobiology Archives (NURA) is a repository and archive consisting of digitized data, databases, lab notes, records, and paraffin tissue samples of animal irradiation studies from eight labs in the U.S. Over the course of five decades that spanned the cold war years, more than 80,000 research animals underwent controlled exposure to radiation through modalities that simulate different routes of human exposure including ingestion, intravenous injection, inhalation, and external beam exposure. These studies used varying chemical forms of isotopes that would result from a bomb explosion or fallout incident, mainly strontium, plutonium, radium, yttrium, californium, and iodine. Funded by the Department of Energy and its predecessor the Atomic Energy Commission, these research studies aimed to elucidate the biological responses to potential radiation exposure or..

Also known as: Northwestern University

Primary location: Chicago United States