#E-cigarettes affect cells : Nature News & Comment
▻http://www.nature.com/news/e-cigarettes-affect-cells-1.15015
Electronic cigarettes can change gene expression in a similar way to tobacco, according to one of the first studies to investigate the biological effects of the devices.
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The changes are not identical, says study researcher Avrum Spira, who works on genomics and lung cancer at Boston University in Massachusetts. But “there are some striking similarities”, he says. The team is now evaluating whether the alterations mean that cells behave more like #cancer cells in culture.
