Where Does the Fluorine Go? New Study Tracks PFAS Destruction Down to the Atom
The significance of this study becomes clearer when viewed against the broader architecture of PFAS remediation, which increasingly relies on ...
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Engineered Zeolite Carriers Fall Short in Boosting Bacteria That Break Down PFOA
The search for biological approaches to PFAS destruction reflects a broader recognition that conventional treatment trains, while effective at separating ...
PFOS Exposure May Trigger Early Atherosclerosis, Zebrafish Study Reveals
A new study has revealed that exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonate, better known as PFOS, may trigger the earliest phenotypic alterations ...
Forever Chemical PFOS Linked to Gum Disease by Genetic and Multiomics Evidence
An integrated study combining global burden data, Mendelian randomization, multiomics, structural simulation, and cell experiments links PFOS exposure to increased ...
Transformation of 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonic acid in laccase-mediator systems
A proof-of-concept study shows that laccase-mediator systems using crude laccase, soybean meal extract, and copper sulfate can transform 6:2 fluorotelomer ...
Fifty Years of Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards Set the Stage for the Next Half-Century
A new Pediatric Research commentary by Richard J. Jackson argues that fifty years of progress in children's environmental health, from ...
School lunches and family history shape forever chemical exposure in Hispanic children
A George Mason University study of Hispanic children in Northern Virginia links school meal participation and longer family residence in ...
Overlooked Forever Chemical TFA Found in Most New Jersey Tap Water and Bottled Drinks
A first-of-its-kind statewide study detected the ultra-short-chain PFAS compound trifluoroacetic acid in more than 91 percent of New Jersey tap-water ...
Extreme Microbes Can Clean the World’s Harshest Waste, So Why Aren’t They in the Field?
A new review finds that extremophile microbes capable of degrading pollutants in saline, hot, acidic, and alkaline waste streams are ...
PFOA Replacements Found to Sabotage Human Sperm Through Calcium and Mitochondrial Damage
A new in vitro study shows that HFPO compounds marketed as safer PFOA replacements impair human sperm motility, acrosome reaction ...
Forever Chemicals in Children May Cast a Health Shadow Lasting Decades
A comprehensive review in Pediatric Research finds that early-life exposure to persistent PFAS chemicals can trigger immune, endocrine, developmental, and ...
Fluorine Spin States That Outlast Relaxation Open New Window on Drug Binding
Researchers have created long-lived fluorine-19 spin states in fluorinated chains that outlast ordinary relaxation and change measurably when the molecules ...
Spin-Locking Trick Sharpens NMR Peaks and Boosts Signals Up to Fortyfold
Researchers in Paris have shown that selective spin-locking with weak radio-frequency pulse trains can narrow NMR lines to a fundamental ...
Bottled Water Across 11 Countries Passes PFAS Limits, but One Unregulated Acid Slips Through
A meta-analysis of 163 bottled water samples from 34 brands in 11 countries found no regulated PFAS above detection limits, ...
New Research Discovers Over 1,000 Additional Chemicals Leaching from Food Contact Materials
The presence of hazardous chemicals in food packaging has long been a subject of concern for health professionals, scientists, and ...
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