brain damage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:03:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 “Safe” Air Pollution Levels Are Not Actually Safe and Linked with Brain Damage in Newborns https://www.greenoptimistic.com/safe-air-pollution-levels-brain-damage-newborns-20180317/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/safe-air-pollution-levels-brain-damage-newborns-20180317/#respond Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:03:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=65370 In a separate study by Chinese researchers, industrial air pollution is being linked with alterations in DNA’s of newborns. That is, when the mothers were exposed to air pollution brought by industrial plants during pregnancy, their newborns were later observed to have shorter telomeres, which are specific sections in our chromosomes carrying the DNA. Now, […]

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