Science news articles about 'environmental toxicants'

  • Link shown between environmental toxicants and atherosclerosis

    ... . "These findings indicate that long-lived organic environmental toxicants may be involved in the occurrence of atherosclerosis and thereby ... -lived they're still out there in our environment. We ingest these environmental toxicants with the food we eat, and since they are stored ...
  • Effects of environmental toxicants reach down through generations

    ... State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed ... a unique aspect for a unique compound" but a characteristic of many environmental compounds. Researchers tested a pesticide mixture ...
  • Fetal Exposure To PCBs Impacts Fertility Markers Of Next Generation In Animal Study

    ... of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, awareness of how environmental toxicants can impact fertility has increased. Researchers ... provide evidence that adverse reproductive effects of toxicants may extend not only to the children of exposed individuals, but also to the next ...
  • What causes cell defenses to crumble?

    ... that play a key defensive role against environmental toxicants. These proteins form part of an active ... barrier in mussel gills that protects them against environmental toxicants, researchers from the Helmholtz Centre ...
  • Researchers identify proteins in mussels that act as a barrier to chemicals

    ... that play a key defensive role against environmental toxicants. These proteins form part of an active ... barrier in mussel gills that protects them against environmental toxicants, researchers from the Helmholtz Centre ...
  • Lead in the blood increases women's mortality

    ... years, environmental lead exposure continues to be a public health concern. Lead is a toxic metal ... risk in CHD mortality". This study shows that environmental toxicants, such as lead, may account for some of the burden of cardiovascular ...
  • Researchers identify how PCBs may alter in utero, neonatal brain development

    ... to market." PCBs have been implicated in epidemiological studies as an environmental cause of diverse neurodevelopmental disorders, including ... implications for the future study and regulation of PCBs and other environmental toxicants. Future PCB studies "Future ...
  • Carbon Nanoparticles Toxic To Adult Fruit Flies But Benign To Young

    ... have discovered that certain types of carbon nanoparticles can be environmentally toxic to adult fruit flies, although ... when added to food for larvae. The findings may further reveal the environmental and health dangers of carbon nanoparticles ...
  • Exposure to lead, tobacco smoke raises risk of ADHD

    ... of 8 and 15 could be reduced by eliminating both of these environmental exposures. This could translate into up to 800,000 children ... than prevention, our study suggests that reducing exposures to environmental toxicants might be an important way to lower ...
  • Study: Social influence playing role in surging autism diagnoses

    ... year. The increased likelihood of being diagnosed is not due to environmental factors or contagious agents, the study found. Rather ... these results could be explained by a social influence effect, or if environmental toxicants or a virus are to blame. For example, the researchers ...
  • Weizmann scientists developed an electronic 'nose' that can predict the pleasantness of novel odors

    ... apparent. These findings have important implications for automated environmental toxicity and malodor monitoring, fast odor ... could provide new methods for odor screening and environmental monitoring, and may, in the future, allow for the digital transmission ...
  • Baby's first full nappy can reveal mother's smoking

    ... and secondhand tobacco smoke exposure is a prevalent environmental exposure that is associated with adverse infant and childhood ... smoke exposure, it may be useful to estimate gestational exposure to other environmental toxicants that exhibit more variability during pregnancy ...
  • Harm reduction cigarettes can be more harmful than conventional brands, researchers report

    ... model currently available for evaluating the effects of environmental toxicants on prenatal stages of development, which are usually ... is the major component of secondhand smoke, also called environmental tobacco smoke, and is inhaled by passive smokers ...
  • Study suggests that being too clean can make people sick

    ... . Bisphenol A (BPA) is found in many plastics and, for example, as a protective lining in food cans. Both of these chemicals are in a class of environmental toxicants called endocrine-disrupting compounds ...
  • Long-lasting chemicals threaten the environment and human health

    ... input values in order to estimate a chemical's environmental persistence. The chemicals to be screened were taken from the High ... were examined. Those with high persistence levels and high environmental toxicity made the enemies list of chemicals ...

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