Young Baja California Scientist Verifies Mobile Phone Signal Threat - to Oysters Mexico News Daily
go to original March 20, 2017

The young scientist in the lab (El Debate)

Research by a budding scientist from La Paz, Baja California Sur, has found that mobile phone signals can have a harmful impact on the development of shellfish.

Fourteen-year-old María Paulina Amézquita Arce is an avid mobile phone user and it was her interest in all things smartphone that guided her most recent foray into research, supported by her advisers, marine biologist Luis García Corona and María del Carmen Rodríguez Jaramillo, senior researcher at the Cibnor Histology Laboratory.

Amézquita had heard of a local oyster farmer who was concerned about the mortality rate of oyster larvae. It turned out the larvae were close to an area where workers took their breaks — and checked their phones.

Intrigued, Amézquita set out to verify if the extremely low frequency magnetic fields (ELFs) generated by the handheld devices, while deemed safe for humans, were affecting the oysters.

Assisted by her advisers, Amézquita was directly involved in all the stages of the research, which concluded that ELFs did indeed have a negative impact during the developmental stages of the oysters and were the cause of the high mortality rates.

A paper including Amézquita’s research will be published later this year in a peer-reviewed scientific publication.

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