<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fda-peb102417.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">Pollutant emitted by forest fire causes DNA damage and lung cell death</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Scientists performed tests with particles from forest and crop fires in the Amazon. Not only did they induce inflammation, oxidative stress and genetic damage in human lung cells, but they also drove one-third of the cultured cells to death.</font></span></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Scientific Reports</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class="">OPEN ACCESS: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11024-3" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11024-3</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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