Dr Andrei Gudkov from the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, said they had set out to enable healthy cells to imitate the ability of tumour cells to avoid cell death.
But they had to develop a way of making this effect temporary and reversible.
This was in the BBC version of events, and it looks like there might be further reaching effects than just a cure for radiation sickness.
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Dr Andrei Gudkov from the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, said they had set out to enable healthy cells to imitate the ability of tumour cells to avoid cell death.
But they had to develop a way of making this effect temporary and reversible.
This was in the BBC version of events, and it looks like there might be further reaching effects than just a cure for radiation sickness.