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Students from the U.S. BCA and Dr. Charles J. Camarda of NASA Visit RERF
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BCA students watching cell sorter demonstration
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On November 20, two teachers and eight students from Bergen County Academies (BCA), a high school located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, visited the Hiroshima Laboratory, led by teachers from the Hiroshima Prefectural Kokutaiji Senior High School, as part of the “Super Science High Schools” project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The group was accompanied by Dr. Charles J. Camarda, of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), who was visiting Hiroshima. After receiving briefings on RERF and RERF’s recent research achievements from Mr. Takanobu Teramoto, RERF Executive Director, and Dr. Roy E. Shore, RERF ViceChairman, respectively, the visitors listened to an explanation by Dr. Yoichiro Kusunoki, chief of the Department of Radiobiology/Molecular Epidemiology, about mechanistic research into radiation-associated disease development and also watched a demonstration of a cell sorter (laboratory equipment used for instant analysis of blood cell properties and DNA statuses at the cellular level, and for high-speed extraction of targeted cells).
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