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Prof. Giovanni Traverso and his colleagues developed a new technique that could one day be used to help protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy, reports Elie Dolgin for Science. The researchers found that providing brief pulses of a protein called “damage suppressor,” or Dsup could “shield injected tissues from radiation. They also found no evidence of acute toxicity with repeat doses, which bodes well for short-term use in clinical settings—for example, to protect nearby tissues during radiation treatment for a cancer,” Dolgin explains.