... years,” said Dr Sinclair.
Colleagues in Aberdeen have provided precise measurements of specific chemicals in the environment and in animal tissues. These often take the form of chemicals which mimic ...
... and agricultural practices interact to determine the transport and fate of agricultural chemicals in the environment is essential for effectively addressing the widespread degradation of surface and ...
... hormone signaling and the relationship of steroid synthesis to enzymes that detoxify harmful chemicals in the environment. Their findings will be published the week of June 29, 2009 in the advance ...
... last a long time, but breakdown products last even longer. Perhaps shell disease is only the tip of the iceberg of a more basic problem of endocrine disrupting chemicals in marine environments."
... mass spectrometer (MS), the Mini 11, a miniature version of a standard lab device (some of which would dominate a living room) to identify tiny amounts of chemicals in the environment.
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... for a variety of scientific disciplines, including environmental toxicology (the study of how chemicals in the environment, such as tobacco smoke, can affect human health). The institute is ...
... in the cell.
"What is unique about this study is that it provides the first evidence that a chemical in our environment changes gene expression in its own, very specific way within a sensory organ ...
... stand on issues that affect the
food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy in our homes and the
chemicals in our environment. Science is at the heart of our modern
world, and it deserves to be at the ...
... for seagrass meadows that remain."
Seagrasses profoundly influence the physical, chemical and biological environments of coastal waters. A unique group of submerged flowering plants, seagrasses ...
... membrane proteins are able to assemble into clusters that direct cell movement to select chemicals in their environment. Their results provide valuable insight into how complex periodic patterns in ...
... of the increased surface-area-to-volume ratio, nanoparticles can be highly reactive with other chemicals in the environment and can also disrupt certain activities within cells.
"While there have ...
... of amphibians in wild populations as "signals" of potential exposure to different chemicals in the environment. "If we have such an understanding for several species, we may be able to use their ...
