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Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage

Radiocarbon from nuclear fallout is a known health risk. However, corresponding risks from natural background radiocarbon incorporated directly into human genetic material have not been fully appreciated. Here we show that the average person will experience between 3.4 × 10(10) and 3.4 × 10(11) life...

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Autor principal: Williams, Christopher P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29033702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10311-007-0100-7
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description Radiocarbon from nuclear fallout is a known health risk. However, corresponding risks from natural background radiocarbon incorporated directly into human genetic material have not been fully appreciated. Here we show that the average person will experience between 3.4 × 10(10) and 3.4 × 10(11) lifetime chromosomal damage events from natural background radiocarbon incorporated into DNA and histones, potentially leading to cancer, birth defects, or accelerated aging. This human genetic damage can be significantly reduced using low radiocarbon foods produced by growing plants in CO(2) recycled from ordinary industrial greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions, providing additional incentive for the carbon sequestration.
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spelling pubmed-56149032017-10-11 Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage Williams, Christopher P. Environ Chem Lett Original Paper Radiocarbon from nuclear fallout is a known health risk. However, corresponding risks from natural background radiocarbon incorporated directly into human genetic material have not been fully appreciated. Here we show that the average person will experience between 3.4 × 10(10) and 3.4 × 10(11) lifetime chromosomal damage events from natural background radiocarbon incorporated into DNA and histones, potentially leading to cancer, birth defects, or accelerated aging. This human genetic damage can be significantly reduced using low radiocarbon foods produced by growing plants in CO(2) recycled from ordinary industrial greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions, providing additional incentive for the carbon sequestration. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2007-11-01 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC5614903/ /pubmed/29033702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10311-007-0100-7 Text en © Springer-Verlag 2007
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Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
title Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
title_full Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
title_fullStr Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
title_full_unstemmed Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
title_short Recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
title_sort recycling greenhouse gas fossil fuel emissions into low radiocarbon food products to reduce human genetic damage
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5614903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29033702
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10311-007-0100-7
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