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These results challenge the conventional view that radiation inflicts its punishment on DNA solely by direct corruption of nucleic acids, says Dudley Goodhead, director of the U.K. Medical Research Council's Radiation and Genome Stability Unit in Harwell. Goodhead says the rate of mutation found in Kazakhstan is "orders of magnitude too large" to be accounted for by direct damage to the germ line DNA--the DNA that gets passed from parent to child. But exactly how long-term exposure to low-dose radiation causes such a high mutation rate remains unknown.
What these germ line mutations mean for health is a mystery, says Bryn Bridges of the Medical Research Council's Cell Mutation Unit in Brighton, United Kingdom. But evidence is mounting that minisatellites affect gene transcription and hike the risk of contracting some diseases. Screening for such mutations might offer a new tool for monitoring radiation exposure, says William Morgan, director of the Radiation Oncology Research Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
1.) If these miniature black holes exist, the Earth has been getting hit by them for billions of years, and it’s still here.
2.) If you do create a miniature black hole, they will decay, via Hawking Radiation, on ridiculously small timescales.
3.) You can compute the rate at which a black hole eats matter, and it’s not even close to being as small as the lifetime of our planet.
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