Environmental manganese good in trace amounts but can correlate to cancer rates
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 08:49
in Biology & Nature
In the first ecological study of its kind in the world, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre researcher has uncovered the unique finding that groundwater and airborne manganese in North Carolina correlates with cancer mortality at the county level...
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