Tag: genotoxicity

Mangrove crabs from a port-influenced Amazonian estuary were smaller, lighter and showed more tissue and nuclear damage than crabs collected ...

Laboratory assays detected mutagenicity, DNA damage and impaired plant growth in Ganges River water extracts containing pharmaceuticals, antibiotics and other ...

A new study finds that quiescent Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells are dramatically more susceptible to menadione-induced oxidative stress and DNA damage ...

A new study shows oregano essential oil damages plant-cell DNA in a concentration-dependent way while showing no mutagenic potential, making ...

A new study finds that the carvacrol-rich non-polar fraction of Greek oregano extract is genotoxic and mutagenic to Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, ...

Extracts from two invasive plants showed no genotoxic, mutagenic, or carcinogenic effects in yeast tests and instead protected cells against ...

Deep in the rubber-producing heartland of southern India, small factories churn out slabs of processed latex every day, and the ...

A new review argues that nanoplastics are an increasingly recognised contaminant in wildlife, but analytical limitations and non-specific biomarkers mean ...

Researchers have developed the first monoclonal antibodies and ELISA capable of detecting the bacterial nuclease toxin USP, a protein linked ...

Laboratory tests show that extracts of Thailand's flavonoid-rich Yoom Noon rice kill colorectal cancer cells, block their migration, and protect ...