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Phone radiation may push cells around

By Duncan Graham-Rowe

10 April 2004

CAN the radiation from mobile phones cause cancer or other health problems? Many researchers fear the answer is yes, yet they have been unable to come up with any plausible way that radiation from a phone could affect, let alone harm, biological tissue. Now research from Sweden suggests a possible answer: mobile phone radiation may cause a massive increase in the forces that cells exert on each other.

The conventional view is that the only way radio waves could damage a cell would be if they were energetic enough to break chemical bonds or heat the tissue, like microwaves. Yet…

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