Article: Downwinders may have a new worry: genetic damage.

Article: Study finds nuclear veterans in Pacific suffered genetic ...
PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association;  May 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... caused significant genetic damage in New Zealand sailors 50 years ... Agent Orange on New Zealand soldiers during ... incurred long term genetic damage as a consequence ... participated in the tests. New Zealand Nuclear Test Veterans ...

Article: Genetic damage found among N-test veterans.
PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association;  September 23, 2005 ;     579 words ... ... 2005 WELLINGTON (Pacnews) -- New Zealand nuclear test veterans have suffered long-term genetic damage from their exposure to explosions ... researcher, Dr Al Rowland, told the New Zealand Herald. Dr Rowland, of Massey ...

Article: Veterans' fears confirmed; Agent Orange 'did genetic ...
The Press;  July 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ...New Zealand soldiers sprayed ... three times the genetic damage of those present ... says. The first New Zealand investigation into ... showed levels of genetic damage that were three ... effects on the 5000 New Zealand soldiers who served ...

Article: Of mice and mills; Study linking emissions, genetic ...
Waste News;  December 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... correlation between steel mill emissions and genetic damage in mice, a finding that has drawn ... concludes that the mice inherited the genetic damage almost entirely from their fathers ... emissions from the steel mills created the genetic damage, Huxley said. The researchers ...

Article: Occupational Exposure to Lead and Induction of Genetic ...
Environmental Health Perspectives;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... sampling periods, and we measured genetic damage as increases in the frequency of binucleated ... found significant differences in the genetic damage induction. We conclude that exposure ... blood lead level is a good indicator of genetic damage induction. Key words: biomonitoring ...

Article: Nanoparticles used in common household items caused ...
Nanotechnology Weekly;  November 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... paint to vitamins, caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a comprehensive ... inside a mouse - that is causing the genetic damage, Schiestl said. They wander throughout ... their drinking water and began showing genetic damage on the fifth day. The human equivalent ...

Article: Genetic damage is tied to sooty air
Daily Breeze;  May 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON -- Sooty air pollution can cause genetic damage that can be passed along to offspring, Canadian researchers ... evidence that any air pollutant might cause the kind of genetic damage that can be inherited -- until Canadian scientists ...