Welcome to the final issue of 2011!
On the front cover of Issue 12 we have a hot article from a team at NIOSH on detecting flu virus particles in the air with a two-stage cyclone bioaerosol sampler. The device is able to separate particles based on size, and may be useful in providing information about the infectivity of the airborne particles, and informing subsequent risk assessments.
Development of an improved methodology to detect infectious airborne influenza virus using the NIOSH bioaerosol sampler
G. Cao, J. D. Noti, F. M. Blachere, W. G. Lindsley and D. H. Beezhold
DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10607D
On the inside front cover is an article from Sílvia Regina Batistuzzo de Medeiros and coworkers on the contamination of a large water reservoir in Brazil with various mutagenic entities such as heavy metals, cyanobacteria and radiation, using the Tradescantia-micronucleus (Trad-MCN) test and cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus (CBMN) assay to confirm the presence of micronuclei in human peripheral blood lymphocytes.
Micronucleus study of the quality and mutagenicity of surface water from a semi-arid region
Anuska Conde Fagundes Soares Garcia, Alexandre Endres Marcon, Douglisnilson de Morais Ferreira, Esdras Adriano Barbosa dos Santos, Viviane Souza do Amaral and Sílvia Regina Batistuzzo de Medeiros
DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10582E
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