MONSANTO, the giant of genetically modified crops, has for the first time been forced to release raw data
from toxicology studies it carried out on three strains of its modified maize.
Not exact matches
A new
study, conducted by the U.S. National
Toxicology Program, found that rats consistently exposed to radiofrequency radiation
from cellphones were more likely to develop malignant tumors in the brain and heart.
The most recent scare on the topic came
from an unreleased
study being conducted by the US National
Toxicology Program.
Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental
Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.
Studies and
Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No
studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.
studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure
from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»
A
study in the journal Chemical Research in
Toxicology finds that mercury on the surface of dental fillings slowly turns to an inert sulfide compound, which should keep the mercury
from harming the nervous system.
The US National
Toxicology Program last week released some results
from a two - year
study in which more than 1000 rats were exposed to differing levels of cellphone radiation for 9 hours a day, for the whole of their lives.
A team headed by Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
from the Institute of Pharmacology and
Toxicology at the University of Zurich did now reveal which inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord are responsible for this control function: As the
study published in the science journal Neuron shows, the control cells are located in the spinal dorsal horn and use the amino acid glycine as an inhibitory messenger.
«Evidence
from clinical
studies... often fails to predict the clinical utility of drugs,» health researchers Huseyin Naci and John Ioannidis write in the current issue of Annual Review of Pharmacology and
Toxicology.
The
study that is being conducted by researchers
from IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Pompeu Fabra University, and the company Chemotargets, within the framework of the European eTOX project, was chosen for the cover of the journal Chemical Research in
Toxicology.
The animal's utility is undisputed; it has helped researchers
study not just pharmacology and
toxicology but everything
from cancer and AIDS to obesity and aging.
Many junior government
toxicology jobs also are integrative, requiring a big - picture view of data
from environmental sampling, epidemiological
studies, clinical trials, and animal and cell - based research.
In the new interdisciplinary work of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, with the collaboration of the Department of Nutrition, Food Science and Gastronomy of the University of Barcelona (computational chemistry); Rocío Gámez - Montaño,
from the University of Guanajato in Mexico (synthesis and mechanism model); John M. Kelly
from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the United Kingdom (biological
studies on anti-parasite activity), and Diego Muñoz - Torrero
from the Department of Pharmacology, Therapeutics and
Toxicology of the UAB, in the field of chemic compound pharmacy.
«I can not explain the reasons behind this discrepancy, because each
study has used a different methodology and drawing conclusions
from this is not possible,» the lecturer in the department of Legal Medicine,
Toxicology and Biological Anthropology affirms.
D., co-author of this
study from the Department of Nutrition, Food Science, Physiology and
Toxicology at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
Objectives: We propose to develop best - practice guidelines and minimal reporting standards specifically in the context of several regulatory
toxicology case
studies; e.g. (a) chemical grouping and read - across to supplement ECHA's Read - Across Assessment Framework, (b) discovery of mode of action / molecular key events (within the AOP framework), (c) derivation of Benchmark Doses
from concentration - response relationships, and (d) cross-species extrapolation within environmental
toxicology.
Environmental Sciences Europe re-published a
study retracted
from Food and Chemical
Toxicology by Gilles - Eric Séralini which purported to show rats fed the herbicide Roundup and Roundup - tolerant GM maize developed cancerous tumours.
We hope to resume enrollment in the
study when we have fully evaluated the new
toxicology findings, the additional monitoring of patients, and the feedback
from the regulatory authorities, investigators, and DMC members.
Smitha Pillai
from the Eawag Department of Environmental
Toxicology and her colleagues
from EPF Lausanne and ETH Zürich
studied the impact of various concentrations of waterborne silver ions on the cells of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Another
study,
from Interdisciplinary
Toxicology, found that glyphosate can cause all major symptoms of celiac disease by chelating important minerals, interfering with gut flora, and inhibiting important enzymes.
A
study from the Journal of Analytical
Toxicology found that hemp foods did not cause subjects to fail required workplace drug tests.
A combination of clove leaf oil and cinnamon leaf oil protected lipids in the skin
from ultraviolet radiation - induced oxidative damage in a
study published in a 2007 issue of the journal «Cutaneous and Ocular
Toxicology.»
Coincidentally with the release of the National
Toxicology Program report, a new
study reports that researchers
from the Yale School of Medicine and Guelph University exposed African Green monkeys on the Island of St. Kitts to low levels of Bisphenol A for a month.
With reproductive rights being such a hot - button topic internationally, it's a wonder why more attention isn't paid to combating pollution on this basis or why those responsible for perpetuating fossil - fuels aren't held culpable for endangering them.Male Infertility Caused by Air Pollution The first
study, conducted by urologist Jorge Hallak, coordinator of the Reproductive
Toxicology and Andrology, Hospital das Clinicas, examined 748 male workers who inhaled the air of major thoroughfares, according to a report
from O Estado.
Some graduates move away
from pure physiology through an MSc or diploma in related subjects such as forensic science or
toxicology, while others change direction
studying something different, e.g. law or computing.