Aerosol toxins from red tides may cause long-term health threat
Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 12:07
in Biology & Nature
NOAA scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that an algal toxin commonly inhaled in sea spray, attacks and damages DNA in the lungs of laboratory rats...
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