DNA Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:51:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 This is How Air Pollution Alters the DNA of Newborns https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-pollution-alters-dna-newborns-20180201/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-pollution-alters-dna-newborns-20180201/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2018 17:42:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=65136 Telomeres, the specialized regions of DNA found at each end of a chromosome, are discovered to be shorter for newborns that were exposed to air pollution before birth than those who were not. These telomeres are responsible for allowing the chromosomes to be copied exactly during cell division. According to a study conducted in China, […]

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