Air pollution may promote asthma and worsen lung diseases by altering immune regulation and increasing oxidative stress, according to recent research on mice.

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But when the group treated the mice with the collagen VII-blocking antibody, the skin cancer failed to spread, though the cancer remained. "This cancer isn't deadly unless it spreads," Khavari said.