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Article: New mobile lab allows scientists to study damaging health effects of air pollution.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Washington, October 8 (ANI): A new mobile air research laboratory will help a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University professor better understand the damaging health effects of air pollution and why certain airborne particles - emitted from plants and vehicles - induce disease and illness.
Jack Harkema, a University Distinguished Professor of pathobiology and diagnostic investigation in the College of Veterinary Medicine, will deploy the new 53-foot, 36,000-pound center - dubbed "AirCARE 2" - throughout southern Michigan, including metropolitan Detroit.
"The mobile laboratory allows us to analyze 'real-world' pollution in communities that ...