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There is mounting evidence that air pollution is bad for our health – but what actually happens inside our bodies when we breathe in particulate matter?
A team of scientists has used gold nanoparticles as a model for environmental nanoparticles, to observe what happens in the body after inhalation in a small number of human study subjects, and in mice. Their study published in the journal ACS Nano.
Roundup comments accompanied this briefing.
Speakers:
Dr Mark Miller: Senior Research Fellow, British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh
Prof. David Newby: British Heart Foundation John Wheatley Chair of Cardiology, University of Edinburgh (taking part by phone)