Science news articles about 'environmental toxicants'

Researchers have discovered that certain types of carbon nanoparticles can be environmentally toxic to adult fruit flies, although they were found to be benign when added to food for larvae. The ...

Since the 1962 publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, awareness of how environmental toxicants can impact fertility has increased. Researchers now provide evidence that adverse reproductive ...

... play a key defensive role against environmental toxicants. These proteins form part of an active, ... against toxic chemicals is called multi-xenobiotic resistance (MXR). Substances that inhibit the MXR ...

... that play a key defensive role against environmental toxicants. These proteins form part of an active, physiological barrier in mussel gills that protects them against environmental toxicants ...

... was associated with almost three-fold risk in CHD mortality". This study shows that environmental toxicants, such as lead, may account for some of the burden of cardiovascular disease, which is the ...

... the current PCB studies have broader implications for the future study and regulation of PCBs and other environmental toxicants. Future PCB studies "Future studies of PCBs and related compounds ...

... tend to focus on ADHD treatment rather than prevention, our study suggests that reducing exposures to environmental toxicants might be an important way to lower rates of ADHD," says Robert Kahn, MD, ...