toxins

Study suggests genetic links between environmental toxins and multiple myeloma

harminka — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:19:33 -0500

The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF)—supporting research and providing education, advocacy and support for myeloma patients, families, researchers and physicians—today said newly published data may provide a possible genetic link between environmental toxins and bone disease in multiple myeloma.

Scinece To Detect Toxins More Precisely

harminka — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:22:42 -0500

If that office inkjet printer has become just another fixture, it's time to take a fresh look at it. Similar technology may soon be used to develop paper-based biosensors that can detect certain harmful toxins that can cause food poisoning or be used as bioterrorism agents.

How Toxoplasma gondii gets noticed

harminka — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:25:22 -0600

Researchers provide insight into how Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite of people and other animals, triggers an immune response in its host. The report will appear online on January 19th in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

New dangerous method for bacterial toxin transfer

harminka — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:02:28 -0600

Scientists have discovered a new way for bacteria to transfer toxic genes to unrelated bacterial species, a finding that raises the unsettling possibility that bacterial swapping of toxins and other disease-aiding factors may be more common than previously imagined.

Small intestine can sense and react to bitter toxins in food

harminka — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:10:13 -0500

Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled.

Green in potatoes may be a sign of a naturally occurring toxin

harminka — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:18:28 -0500

Potatoes that have turned 'green' can potentially contain a naturally occurring toxin called Glycoalkaloids (GA) and pose a risk to public health according to a review paper published in the latest online issue of SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture (JSFA).

CHEJ To Wal-Mart, Retailers: Stop PVC Shower Curtain Sales

Armen Hareyan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:06:25 -0500

Over 100 chemicals released into the air from PVC shower curtains sold at major retail outlets according to latest laboratory results. An urgent call is issued for Wal-Mart and other retailers to immediately phase out PVC shower curtains & for the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall PVC shower curtains from store shelves

Toxins in cigarette smoke prevent stem cells from becoming cartilage

harminka — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:27:24 -0600

A toxic pollutant spread by oil spills, forest fires and car exhaust is also present in cigarette smoke, and may represent a second way in which smoking delays bone healing, according to research presented today at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society in San Francisco.

Deadly toxin ricin found in Las Vegas motel

seher — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:41:02 -0600

Las Vegas authorities do not believe that substance found at a Las Vegas motel may be the highly toxic ricin and that it was intended for a terrorist attack. Lab tests on the substance were pending and seven people were taken to hospitals as a precaution.

New esearch examines commonly used toxin

harminka — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:22 -0600

New Research at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Kinesiology suggests that Botulinium type-A toxin (BTX-A) passes easily to surrounding muscles and is more difficult to control once injected than many people suspect.

Bacterial toxin closes gate on immune response

harminka — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:55:46 -0600

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that a bacterial toxin from the common bacterium Staphylococcus aureus shuts down the control mechanism of the tunnel, called an ion channel, in immune cell membranes.

Invisible micropollutants invade crops, water supply

harminka — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:06:39 -0600

They’re here, there, and everywhere: Toxins produced by a common fungus are spreading beyond food crops and invading the environment, including water supplies, with unknown consequences, researchers in Switzerland report.