Researchers explore mutational signatures associated with exposure to microplastic pollutants
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), plastic products and their chemical derivatives present in the environment present public health concerns on a global scale and more exploration on the potential impact to human health is needed. Researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey explored to what extent common components in microplastic pollutants cause DNA damage in human cells, which may leave complex mutational signatures in human cancers in organs that are at risk of relatively high level of environmental exposure.
Subhajyoti De, PhD, researcher at Rutgers Cancer Institute and an associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the senior author of the work and shares more about the findings published in the March 2021 online version of
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