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Soot and dust particles from industrial pollution can cause genetic changes in male mice that are later passed along to their offspring, according to a new study.
Although researchers caution that it's not clear whether such damage could be passed between generations of humans, "structural changes in DNA have been detected in human sperm after air pollution exposure," said Christopher Somers, a biologist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.See the full content of this document
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Study Says Pollutants Can Cause Genetic Mutations
Dr. Somers, James Quinn and several other colleagues have been studying animals around a steel-mill complex o...
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