PULLMAN, Wash., June 25 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:
The U.S.Transuranium and Uranium Registries is a little-known research program in the Washington State University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, but it has an outsized role in scientists' understanding of how radioactive elements affect the human body.
USTUR's findings are used to validate radiation safety standards for people who work with plutonium and uranium, to study the biological effects of radiation on tissues, and to improve mathematical models that are used to calculate radiation doses.
One of its most important tools is the National Human Radiobiology Tissue Repository, an archive of tissue, organs, and bones from 371peo...