Gene-altering compounds released from forest fires

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 13:21 in Mathematics & Economics

Scientists in Washington State are reporting the first discovery of potent mutagenic substances in smoke from forest fires that often sweep through huge stands of Ponderosa pine in the western United States and Canada.

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