Genetic differences might trigger cell-phone radiation damage

A recent study out of Finland suggests that a person's genetic makeup can determine how much he or she will be affected by radiation from cellular phones. Mobilemag reports.

"Warnings of damage from cell waves have been issued for many years now, starting with a wave of suspected links to brain cancer several years back. Previous attempts to prove such links have failed. And those failures, at least according to the Finnish scientists, occurred because the tests didn't take genomic differences into account.

Tests at a research facility in Helsinki showed definite differences in the way that two genetically different sets of cells responded to 900 MHz GSM cell-phone radiation: One set of cells showed no remarkable difference, while the other showed damage to its DNA. Whether this test can be replicated on more than a cellular level is a question for the scientific community at large. It is perhaps only then that we can determine the validity of the Finnish study."

emily | 6:29 PM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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