Diesel exhaust can mutate your genes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 40px;">Study finds that diesel exhaust can mutate your genes. </span><br> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Vancouver Coastal Health have discovered that not only can exposure to diesel exhaust give asthmatics headaches and itchy eyes, but -- more poignant to their study -- it can alter genes on a micro level. After just two hours of exposure to diesel exhaust fumes, study participants exhibited changes in their genes linked to oxidative stress and inflammation.⁽¹⁾</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;"><br></span></span></div> <div> <img src="http://www.genesisradiobirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Exhaust-Fumes-Tail-Pipe-Car-604x345.jpg"></div></div>

Diesel exhaust can mutate your genes

Study finds that diesel exhaust can mutate your genes.  Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Vancouver Coastal H...

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