It is a result of radiation damage to the crystal.
It took them two weeks to do a proper number on the radiation damage alone.
Otherwise the ship was running okay, some radiation damage here and there; nothing vital.
Efforts were made to study this last summer by searching the patients' chromosomes for evidence of radiation damage.
With radiation damage, we can only risk transporting them once.
However, the larger size of the adult insects' eyes makes them more prone to radiation damage.
The same effect can be achieved by radiation damage.
It looks like they have also suffered some extensive radiation damage.
He later showed that stem cells could not only heal radiation damage, but also fight cancer.