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--Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2009/02/uranium-poisoning-treatment-developed.htm>monochrom at 2/13/2009 11:13:00 AM
The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the
risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of
radioactive uranium waste poses an additional environmental risk.
However, radioactivity is not the only problem related to contact
with uranium; the toxicity of this metal is generally more dangerous
to human health.
Researchers led by Chuan He at the University of Chicago and Argonne
National Laboratory (USA) have now developed a protein that binds to
uranium selectively and tightly. As reported in the journal
Angewandte Chemie, it is based on a bacterial nickel-binding protein.
