Depleted Uranium - All you wanted to ask but couldn't get official answers for ...
CategoriesI have posted several articles on the ongoing genocide by "depleted" but nevertheless highly radioactive uranium, a hazardous waste product of uranium fuel production that is today used in munitions and missile casings. It is devastating for any target these bullets and missiles hit, but more importantly it leaves a fine-particle uranium dust behind that will persist long after humans have left the planet to colonize and inhabit other star systems.
Robert Fisk, the British journalist, has compiled a page with a huge number of links to articles and documents you should have available. I found the link and the short introduction that follows, on the Alternative Medicine Forum Yahoo group.
BURNING 'DEPLETED' URANIUM: AN ENDLESS MEDICAL DISASTER
This is an awesome page, compiled by Robert Fisk, British journalist sans pareil (we recall he won the British equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize something like 7 out of 8 years, at last sighting, 2003). Leave it to someone as highly respected throughout the journalistic world, and world governments, as he is, to compile such an amazing page of links, bibiliography, and background pieces. It's a one stop shop, and we're posting it at different group boards because he, and others such as Lt. Col. Doug Rokke and Leuren Moret, have convinced us that this issue, Depleted Uranium and its unconscionable and unrestrained use in combat, is the most important issue on the world stage, and DU itself poses the single greatest threat to life on earth, all life.
See also this recent article:New research on uranium's effect on DNA
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., April 10 (UPI) -- A Northern Arizona University biochemist and her students report that uranium can damage DNA as a heavy metal independent of its radioactive properties.Their research has enormous implications for the study of depleted uranium as a component in military munitions.
Phys.org news agency reported on April 7 that Stearns and her students are the first researchers to discover that when cells are exposed to uranium, the uranium binds to DNA and the cells can mutate, the uranium altering the cell's DNA code. The end result can be that the affected DNA can produce a different protein or wrong amounts of protein, affecting cell growth, some of which can metastasize into cancer cells.
While scientists have long known that uranium can damage DNA as a radioactive metal, Stearns and her collaborators discovered that uranium could also damage DNA as a heavy metal, independent of its radioactive properties.
Sterns said, "Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can get a mutation."
While scientists have discovered that other heavy metals are known to bind to DNA, Stearns and her collaborators are the first to link this trait to uranium.
The results of the team's research were published recently in Mutagenesis and Molecular Carcinogenesis journals.
posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Wednesday September 21 2005
updated on Wednesday April 12 2006URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2005/09/21/depleted_uranium_all_you_wanted_to_ask_but_couldnt_get_official_answers_for_.htm
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