Pollen: You can run, but you can't hide
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 07:10
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) —It's the yellowish coating on cars. It floats on ponds, blows with the spring breeze and serves as a potent irritant to allergy sufferers. Now a NASA team is targeting pollen—and its work could help alleviate some of the suffering. Partnering with experts from academia, health organizations, the medical community and other federal agencies, the team is modeling pollen release cycles and concentrations in the American southwest to better forecast high-level pollen release and movement—potentially creating a better early-warning system to help protect allergy sufferers from the debilitating yellow dust.