A Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) study on the effects of mobiles on human skin has shown that living tissue does indeed respond to mobile phone radiation.
Skin biopsies, with samples taken from the forearms of 10 participants exposed to a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) signal for an hour, showed that exposed and non-exposed areas of the skin were affected by the mobile phone radiation. In fact, as 580 skin proteins were identified in total, eight were observed to be altered.
Dariusz Leszczynski, a Research Professor at STUK said: “Mobile phone radiation has some biological effect. Even if the changes are small, they still exist.”
Impact on health?
However, the researcher stresses that it is too early to say that these changes would have any impact on health.
“The aim of this project was not detecting any possible health effects, but to find out whether living human skin responds to mobile phone radiation and whether proteomics approach is useful in sorting out this issue,” Leszczynski added.
A more extensive study with 50-100 volunteers is now planned at STUK. The new study is expected to begin in 2009.
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Date Published: February 26, 2008
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