The immune cost of dirty air

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Particulate pollution is usually framed as a respiratory problem. But a growing body of work suggests its reach extends into the long-term programming of innate immune cells — a form of “trained immunity” that can leave the body primed for chronic inflammation long after the smog has cleared.