Mould, pesticides, toxic chemical exposures reported in survey of Canadian child care professionals
Nearly half of some 2,000 professionals in child care programs across Canada report unhealthy conditions for children, according to survey ...
Tag: Toxic
DOD Awards $297,831 to study effects of toxic pollutants on airway pathology
The Department of Defense awarded $297,831 to Kartik Balachandran, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the U of A, to ...
Singapore scientists demonstrate that some tropical plants have potential to remove toxic heavy metals from the soil
A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks), has demonstrated that ...
Identifying toxic materials in water with machine learning
Waste materials from oil sands extraction, stored in tailings ponds, can pose a risk to the natural habitat and neighbouring ...
Stealth nanomedicines combat cancer and cut toxic effects of chemo
Nanomedicines – typically drugs hidden within nanoscopic fatty membranes (‘liposomes’) – have potential to transform chemotherapy treatments, improving drug delivery ...
Substance derived from tire debris is toxic to two trout species, not just coho salmon
Every time it rains, fish living downstream of storm drains are exposed to pollutants, including the tire-derived compound 6PPD-quinone, in ...
Construction workers at risk of unintentionally exposing families to multiple toxic metals
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Michael Saunders, [email protected] Jillian McKoy, [email protected] ## Construction Workers at Risk of Unintentionally Exposing Families to ...
Newly discovered effect of toxic goiter on brain
Toxic goiter affects the brain more than was previously known, a University of Gothenburg study shows, and involves volume changes ...
Nature’s colors can replace toxic pigments
Dye pigments are often toxic, so researchers around the world have long been looking for effective ways to make non-toxic, ...
SIRT2: another important factor that determines the toxic effects and potential mechanisms of PM2.5
Air pollutants comprise a complex mixture of airborne particles such as gases, liquids, and particulate matter (PM). Particulate matter 2.5 ...
New biosensors measure toxic drugs in cancer, arthritis, and organ transplant patients
Researchers are a step closer to transforming a US$70 billion global diagnostic industry with new designer biosensors that ‘switch on’ ...
Exposure to toxic metals may increase risk of clogged arteries
DALLAS, Dec. 9, 2021 — Environmental exposure to low-levels of the toxic metals arsenic, cadmium and titanium appears to increase ...
Soybean study designs and implements a more effective and less toxic bio-fungicide
Fungal diseases of plants are normally managed through the application of fungicides, which are not only toxic to the pathogens ...
An eco-friendly toxic cocktail could be a new weapon against malaria
Mosquitoes can and do feed on HMBPP-supplemented beetroot juice. This is the findings of a study at Stockholm University. HMBPP ...
Study finds growing potential for toxic algal blooms in the Alaskan arctic
Changes in the northern Alaskan Arctic ocean environment have reached a point at which a previously rare phenomenon—widespread blooms of ...
Toxic DNA buildup in eyes may drive blinding macular degeneration
Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular ...
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New study shows snacking on mixed tree nuts may impact cardiovascular risk factors and increase serotonin
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Researchers achieve the first observation of de Broglie-Mackinnon wave packets by exploiting loophole in 1980’s-era laser physics theorem
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The next generation of global health innovators: Michelson Prize winners announced
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Simulations reproduce complex fluctuations in soft X-ray signal detected by satellites
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New study debunks the assumption that menstrual cycles disqualify women from exercise research