Over the past years there have appeared in the media increasingly more alarming reports about micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) ...

As interest in essential oils (EOs) for their therapeutic, antibacterial, and antifungal properties continues to grow—driving demand for high-quality products in both medicinal and industrial ...

Tattoo inks in Australia contain potentially carcinogenic and toxic chemicals, with no current regulatory framework in place. Advanced spectrometry techniques revealed that none of the tested inks ...

The team applied this method to mRNA/saRNA constructs from 1 to 10 kb and assessed pH ranges from 3 to 6. For all the RNA constructs, the J2 immunoblot signal—a marker for dsRNA strands—decreased with ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are tiny particles shed by cells that carry important molecular "clues" about the cell's ...

In a case that reads like a mashup of Seabiscuit and Breaking Bad, a New Mexico judge stepped in last month to block the ...

Over the past year, scientists have searched brain tissue, arteries and even joints for the presence of microplastics. The tiny particles, they have found, are ubiquitous in the human body - littering ...

It doesn't get any spicier than this. We explore how these hellish chiles were developed, the records they've broken, and ...

Hakho Lee, PhD , Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the Center for Systems Biology at Mass General Brigham, is the co-senior author ...

Numerous studies have found evidence of microplastics in the human body and warned of the risks to our health. But in the race to research this new field scientists may have drastically overstated the ...

The main objective of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was to measure the impact of a multivitamin ...

A pile of ancient arrowheads from southern Africa still holds traces of toxic plant residue, even after some 60,000 years. The discovery pushes back the earliest direct evidence of poisoned arrow use ...