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Published online 18 April 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030414-13
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Lung hot spots concentrate carcinogens
Computer model highlights cells at cancer risk.
Certain spots in the lungs may accumulate massively more cancer-causing airborne particles than was previously thought, according to a new model1. It suggests that some safe limits for pollutants could be underestimates.
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