{"id":223755,"date":"2025-10-22T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/toxic-salton-sea-dust-triggers-changes-in-lung-microbiome-after-just-one-week"},"modified":"2025-10-22T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:05:46","slug":"toxic-salton-sea-dust-triggers-changes-in-lung-microbiome-after-just-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/toxic-salton-sea-dust-triggers-changes-in-lung-microbiome-after-just-one-week","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toxic-salton-sea-dust-triggers-changes-in-lung-microbiome-after-just-one-week.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dust from California\u2019s drying Salton Sea doesn\u2019t just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Genetic or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacterial+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacterial diseases<\/a> have previously been shown to have an effect on lung microbes. However, this discovery marks the first time scientists have observed such changes from environmental exposure rather than a disease.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the journal <i>mSphere<\/i>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/msphere.00209-25\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> shows that inhalation of airborne dust collected close to the shallow, landlocked lake alters both the microbial landscape and immune responses in mice that were otherwise healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dust from California\u2019s drying Salton Sea doesn\u2019t just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs. Genetic or bacterial diseases have previously been shown to have an effect on lung microbes. However, this discovery marks the first time scientists have observed such changes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}