People are occasionally exposed to potentially harmful substances in the environment or through their diets or habits. For example, a compound found in cigarette and industrial smoke, benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), is known to damage DNA. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have mapped these effects—down to the single-nucleotide level—for the first time in human lung cells after BaP exposure. They say that this technique could help predict exposures that lead to cancers.
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