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My friend Andrew said that if you put a raw egg in a glass of water, you can

cook it with a mobile phone. This won't help the brain, and one's ears can

get cooked. N

 

Mobile phones 'harm blood cells'

http://wrightworld.net/science.htm

 

4-7-04 Mobile phone radiation may damage cells by increasing the forces they

exert on each other, scientists have said. The finding could be the key to

claims that mobile phones cause cancer and other health problems. Swedish

physicists looked at the effect of electromagnetic radiation on red blood

cells using a mathematical theory, New Scientist reported. Experts cautioned

that the finding was theoretical and said there was no evidence of a danger

to health. There have been suggestions that mobile phones can cause brain

tumours and Alzheimer's disease, but research has been inconclusive. The

conventional view has been that radio waves could only damage a cell if they

were energetic enough to break chemical bonds or " cook " tissue. But

radiation given off by mobile phone handsets is too weak to do this. Bo

Sernelius at Linkoping University, Sweden, looked at another possibility by

modelling the properties of red blood cells. Water molecules have poles of

positive and negative charge which create forces between cells. These forces

are normally extremely weak - about a billion-billionth of a newton.

 

Mathematical - The simplified mathematical model investigated the effect of

electromagnetic radiation in the field of 850 megahertz - about the range

used by mobile phones - on the blood cells. The molecules all ended up with

their poles aligned in the same direction. The forces between the cells

unexpectedly jumped by about 11 orders of magnitude. If confirmed by

experiments, the results could give an exmplanation for tissue damage.

Stronger attractive forces between cells might make them clump together or

cause blood cells to contract, New Scientist said. Katie Daniel, deputy

editor of the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, said the finding

was important. " It highlights the idea that electromagnetic radiation might

act on cells by affecting the attractive forces between them rather than

simply causing heat damage to tissue, " she said. Camelia Gabriel, from

King's College London, who is taking part in the Mobile Telecommunications

and Health Research Programme funded by the Government, said the theory was

feasible. But she said the model was extremely simple and may not apply to

larger numbers of cells. " It needs to be tested experimentally, " she said.

Dr Michael Clark at the National Radiological Protection Board said: " You

can do anything with numbers. It is very interesting, but I can't get

excited about it until somebody measures it. " Studies had not proved there

was any danger to health from mobile phones, he said. " There is no evidence

of cancer or anything else. So it is so far, so good. But it is early days, "

said Dr Clark.

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