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Traffic Pollution and Children’s Chromosomes

Traffic Pollution and Children’s Chromosomes

Update: 2017-11-13
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This episode features a recent study showing that air pollution from automobiles can cause shortening of teloimeres, the extreme ends of chromosomes, in children and adolescents. This work was published by Professor John Balmes from the University of California at San Francisco and was conducted on children and adolescents in Fresno, California.

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Traffic Pollution and Children’s Chromosomes

Traffic Pollution and Children’s Chromosomes

Nathan H. Lents