October 5, 2007

Genes get exited by smoking

Smoking has been found to have a serious effect on genes; in fact it has been described as a turn on. This may sound that it could be a good thing, however these changes are bad and they can be permanent too.

But the good news is that when a smoker stops, so do most of the changes, although some genes will remain in the turned on state for years after. It was found that in a cell around a fifth of the genes are affected.

Yet 50% of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients are former smokers, which means that the cells in the airways are still turned on.

Source [GITEX]

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