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Study: Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA

“After being exposed to electromagnetic fields that are typical for mobile phones, the cells showed a significant increase in single and double-strand DNA breaks. The damage could not always berepaired by the cell. DNA carries the genetic material of an organism and its different cells.

The so-called Reflex study, conducted by 12 research groups in seven European countries, did not prove that mobile phones are a risk to health but concluded that more research is needed to see if effects can also be found outside a lab.”

Why even post this as news if they are going to discredit it by calling it a “so-called Reflex study”? Either cell phones are damaging to people or not. How can they harm your DNA and cell’s but not be a risk to your health? You be the judge.

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