Death of heart diseases in the world linked to chemicals widely used in plastics
Credit: UNSPLASH / CC0 public domain Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to manufacture plastic household items could be linked ...
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The health and economic costs of three toxic chemicals used in plastics are estimated at $1.5 trillion in a single year.
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain A new study co-authored by an economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst estimates that adverse ...
Discovering the molecular properties of lignin could help turn trees into affordable, greener industrial chemicals
Bob Kelly (left) and Jack Wang look at cottonwood trees in a greenhouse on NC State's Centennial campus. Credit: Dee ...
Study finds widespread exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals during pregnancy
Spearman correlation between log-transformed mycoestrogen concentration in urine (ng/ml) and placenta (ng/g) and dietary parameters in the UPSIDE cohort. The ...
New method to permanently break down chemicals uses nanoparticles and ultrasound
Illustration showing common sources of PFAS and their associated hazards, and a schematic diagram illustrating the piezocatalytic degradation of PFOS. ...
Enzyme-inspired catalyst places chemicals in the right position to produce ethers
A new, enzyme-inspired, small-molecule catalyst developed at the University of Illinois holds alcohols and alkenes in the ideal proximity and ...
Engineers develop all-in-one solution to capture and destroy ‘forever chemicals’
Pictured: Pani Rostami, a chemical engineering student researcher at UBC. Credit: UBC Applied Science/Paul Joseph Chemical engineers at the University ...
Researchers unveil method to detect ‘forever chemicals’ in less than 3 minutes
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain PFAS have earned the nickname "forever chemicals" for good reason: man-made compounds, which can take thousands ...
Premature births linked to ‘hormone-disrupting’ chemicals could cost US billions
Credit: CC0 Public domain Daily exposure to chemicals used in the manufacturing of plastic food containers and many cosmetic products ...
More than 900 chemicals, many of which are found in consumer products and the environment, exhibit characteristics that cause breast cancer.
Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells, with DNA stained blue and protein in the cell surface membrane stained green. ...
