– Can a single person grow immunity to radiation? Or us as a species can?

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Like our immunity system gets stronger against usual viruses and bacterias, can we evolute to grow more immune to radiation during generations? (I know it’s different things and responses, it’s just an example)

If yes, how?

If not, why?

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The twins study with Scott Kelly showed his telomeres got longer with exposure to higher background radiation levels of the ISS. Our DNA does react and try and protect itself from radiation by making its ends longer. This is what some call garbage DNA, kinda sacrificial DNA, it gets destroyed from the radiation instead of the good DNA

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