Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi

• Ekaterina Dadachova ,

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: edadacho@aecom.yu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Ruth A. Bryan,

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Xianchun Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Tiffany Moadel,

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Andrew D. Schweitzer,

  Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Philip Aisen,

  Affiliation Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Joshua D. Nosanchuk,

  Affiliations Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Arturo Casadevall

  Affiliations Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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