Life Sciences and Radiation
Accomplishments and Future Directions
Herausgegeben: Kiefer, Jürgen
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The book contains the proceedings of an international workshop held in Giessen in October 2002 that explored the potential of radiation research in the life sciences. The contributions demonstrate that the development of molecular biology and cell biology is intimately linked with the application of radiation methods. It is shown that the study of the cell cycle and of intercellular communication, as well as recent achievements in radiation therapy and the understanding of carcinogenic processes are not possible without radiation research. Repair of genetic damage cannot be studied without the analysis of radiation induced damage and its modification. The book thus details the great importance of radiation research in the whole field of life sciences and constitutes not only an important source book for radiation scientists but also an introduction in the field for the nonspecialist interested in the state of the art in radiation research.
Scope and ideas of the workshop The workshop which took place at the University of Giessen from Oct. 3 to Oct. 7, 2002 and whose proceedings are collected in this volume started from the idea to convene a number of scientists with the aim to outline their "visions" for the future of radiation research on the basis of their expertise. As radiation research is a very wide field restrictions were unavoidable. It was decided to concentrate this time mainly on molecular and cellular biology because it was felt that here action is par-ticularly needed. This did not exclude contributions from neighbouring fields as may be seen from the table of contents. It was clearly not planned to have a c- prehensive account of the present scientif fic achievements but the results presented should only serve as a starting point for the discussion of future lines of research, with the emphasis on the "outreach" to other parts of life sciences. If you are interested in the future ask the young - we attempted, therefore, to invite mainly younger colleagues (with a few exceptions) who had, however, already left their marks in the field. They were asked to describe what they felt is important in radiation research and may have significant influences on other branches of life sciences. They were given the task to demonstrate what is lost for science "if we do no longer exist".
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