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Why some people living with high radiation show extra DNA repair

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We treat all radiation like a death sentence, but biology is way weirder than that. In places like Ramsar, Iran, residents absorb massive doses of natural background radiation daily. Instead of developing rampant tumors, their bodies exhibit 'radiation hormesis,' triggering an aggressive hyper-repair response that fixes DNA damage faster than the radiation can cause it.

Why some people living with high radiation show extra DNA repair
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