Top Story: Expect an active summer of wildfire smoke in Minnesota
Dr. Sarah Lacher in the Department of Biomedical Sciences spoke to Northern News Now about the health effects of wildfire smoke and her research in this area.
“As a toxicologist, we’re really interested in thinking about poisons in the environment and how they induce stress in cells,” said Dr. Lacher. “Poisons are stressful for cells. Some cells can get over the stress; a little bit of stress they can handle it and deal with it and recover. But at some point, the stress or a poison or something like wildfire smoke can become so hard on a cell that it can’t really recover.”