SciDevNet: Unlike conventional diesel, fuel made from soybeans does not directly damage lung cells, a lab study has shown.
"Some of the soybean biodiesel presently being used in Brazil does not exhibit direct adverse effects on human lung cells nor [does it] induce inflammatory response,' says the paper, published in the August issue of the journal Toxicology in Vitro.
To assess the fuels' toxic effects, researchers from Brazil and Puerto Rico exposed lung cell cultures to particles emitted by the combustion...