News tagged with toxic chemicals
EPA announces research strategy to study nanomaterials
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 29, 2009 |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today outlined a new research strategy to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment. Nanomaterials are materials that are between approximately ...
How safe are e-cigarettes?
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Tonya Moraffah takes a deep drag on her cigarette, feels the soothing surge of nicotine and explains what extinguished her 30-year, pack-a-day smoking habit.
Electronic nose sniffs out toxins
Sep 13, 2009 |
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Imagine a polka-dotted postage stamp-sized sensor that can sniff out some known poisonous gases and toxins and show the results simply by changing colors.
Study confirms classic theory on the origins of biodiversity
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell study on the diversity of milkweed plants has used new techniques to prove an old theory that explains how the arms race between attacking insects and defended plants led to great ...
FDA: Electronic cigarettes contain toxic chemicals
Jul 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials said Wednesday they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers' claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes.
HIPS fireproof coatings can really take the heat
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Tough new fire-resistant coating materials called HIPS ('hybrid inorganic polymer system') are being developed by CSIRO researchers in Melbourne.
Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.
New way to make sensors that detect toxic chemicals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method for making extremely pure, very small metal-oxide nanoparticles.
Diabetes drug shows promise against multiple sclerosis (w/Podcast)
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 26, 2009 |
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A drug currently FDA-approved for use in diabetes shows some protective effects in the brains of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine ...
Dell bans e-waste export to developing countries
May 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- PC maker Dell Inc. formally banned on Tuesday the export of broken computers, monitors and parts to developing countries amid complaints that lax enforcement of environmental and worker-safety regulations have allowed ...
Brain protein central to both Parkinson's, drug addiction identified
May 04, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified a protein that appears not only to be central to the process that causes Parkinson's disease but could also play a role in muting the high from methamphetamine and other addictive drugs.
Researchers identify how PCBs may alter in utero, neonatal brain development
Apr 14, 2009 |
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In three new studies — including one appearing online today in the Public Library of Science - Biology (PLoS - Biology) — UC Davis researchers provide compelling evidence of how low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PC ...
EPA to test air outside schools, but has largely ignoring its peer-reviewed screening tool
Apr 07, 2009 |
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After ignoring its own research for most of the last decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this spring will test the air outside dozens of schools across the nation that are close to industrial polluters.
By shutting down inflammation, agent reverses damage from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have been able to speed recovery and substantially reduce damage resulting from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies.
Microscope reveals how bacteria 'breathe' toxic metals
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Researchers are studying some common soil bacteria that "inhale" toxic metals and "exhale" them in a non-toxic form.
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