New commuter concern: Cancerous chemical in car seats
Airborne pollutant emanates from the insideCredit: David Volz/UCR The longer your commute, the more you're exposed to a chemical flame ...
Tag: Toxicology
Nanoparticles produced from burning coal result in damage to mice lungs
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech scientists have discovered that incredibly small particles of an unusual and highly toxic titanium oxide ...
Butt emissions: Study finds even extinguished cigarettes give off toxins
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all types of littering ...
What’s in your water?
Researchers identify new toxic byproducts of disinfecting drinking waterCredit: Marissa Lanterman/Johns Hopkins University Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United ...
Major Asia gene study to help doctors battle disease
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications An ambitious new study of genes in Asian populations is filling in big gaps ...
Human Body-on-Chip platform enables in vitro prediction of drug behaviors in humans
Fluidically-linked systems of multiple human Organ Chips that quantitatively predict drug pharmacokinetics may offer alternatives to some animal testsCredit: Wyss ...
Chemicals in the environment: A focus on mixtures
Combined chemical and bioanalytical methods are able to efficiently characterize chemical mixturesCredit: Bodo Tiedemann Chemicals have improved our quality of ...
New study to examine impact of environmental exposure on breast cancer risk in young women
UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has ...
New exhaust gas measurement registers ultrafine pollutant particles for the first time
Credit: © Bainschab A few days ago, the European Commission presented its Green Deal, which aims to make the EU ...
Study gauges efficacy of drugs against pork tapeworm
Credit: Pan American Health Organization/ World Health Organization official photo (CC BY 4.0) Taenia solium--also called pork tapeworm--is a parasite ...
Low doses of radiation used in medical imaging lead to mutations in cell cultures
Discovery that radiation creates breaks that allow in foreign DNA must be confirmed in animal studiesCredit: Kevin Mackenzie, University of ...
New method detects toxin exposure from harmful algal blooms in human urine
FAU Harbor Branch researcher collaborates with US Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCredit: Florida Atlantic University Blooms of toxin-producing algae ...
Study contests use of smoked cannabis in treatment of cocaine addiction
Researchers in Brazil evaluated cocaine and crack addicts undergoing rehabilitation for six months and observed a higher relapse rate and ...
UMass Amherst researchers identify new mechanism involved in promoting breast cancer
Study found two cosmetics chemicals damage DNA of breast cells at low dosesCredit: UMass Amherst A new approach to studying ...
Why did we give sailors and soldiers shark repellent that … didn’t work? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2020 -- People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for ...
Trace Metals in Leatherback Turtle Eggs May Harm Consumers
Credit: Argelis RuÃz Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) eggs laid in Bocas del Toro nesting beaches in the Panamanian Caribbean may ...
Two drugs used in combination prove to be effective against most aggressive asbestos cancer in mice
CNIO researchers and authors of the finding want to start clinical trialsCredit: CNIO Exposure to asbestos is the major risk ...
Which of these mushrooms could kill you? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2019 -- There are tens of thousands of mushroom species out there, ...
UTHealth’s Cynthia Ju awarded NIH grants for liver injury research
Credit: UTHealth Tiny solutions are being sought for big liver problems by a scientist at McGovern Medical School at The ...
It’s a small (coal-polluted) world, after all
Credit: Frank Dunnivant A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry underscores that the release of pollutants in one region ...
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