Laura Lewis and her team of researchers have been putting in late nights in their Boston University lab. Lewis ran tests until around 3:00 in the morning, then ended up sleeping in the next day. It ...

UCSC researchers used Solid Phase Adsorption Toxin Tracking (SPATT) samplers to detect dissolved toxins in the waters of San Francisco Bay. Zephyr Sylvester from the San Francisco Estuary Institute ...

Eight months after a congressional report shed light on the issue of toxins in baby food, a new report finds more cases of major manufacturers selling baby food with high levels of toxic heavy metals.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System have identified a ...

Toxins found in the skin of poison dart frogs may hitch a ride there via molecular taxicabs. Now, scientists have pinpointed a protein that can give at least some poisons a ride. The protein, dubbed ...

Some consumers believe detoxifying foot pads can cure or prevent ailments. April 11, 2008— -- Did you know that your body may be crawling with poisons and toxins? Heavy metals like arsenic and ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

We live in a world filled with toxins—whether it’s the pollution in the air, pesticides in our food, or chemicals in everyday products. While we can’t control every environmental hazard, we do have ...

With 86% of North American feed ingredient samples testing above the risk threshold for mycotoxins, livestock may face stacked biological stress.

The antivenom for a black mamba’s bite could one day work for a slew of other snakes. Scientists have developed an antibody that shuts down paralyzing toxins in the venom of black mambas, king cobras ...

Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake, has turned toxic green due to a massive algae bloom. Scientists warn of ...

Biological toxins are defined as any toxic substances occurring in nature produced by animals, plants or microbes (pathogenic bacteria), such as bacteria, fungi, flowering plants, insects, fish, ...