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  • Australian mobile phone research stymied

    Dr Pamela Sykes has failed to obtain funding to proceed with a study on mobile phone radiation. A pilot program conducted by Sykes found that transgenic mice exposed for 25 days to periods of radiation at 900 MHz (such as is emitted by digital mobile phones) showed significant changes to DNA. While Sykes had hypothesised that the exposure would increase the number of DNA breaks, the pilot in fact found that there was a protective effect.