Speciation News

Experts draw lessons from mistakes that delayed regulation of mercury pollution...

Bacteria living in the human gut can increase the toxicity of arsenic ingested from contaminated food and water, suggesting a need to rethink the health risks associated with arsenic exposure. ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Georgia demonstrated that the metalloproteome of the microorganism Pyrococcus furiosus likely contains twice as many proteins as was previously thought...

Developing more sensitive methods of biomedical imaging that are effective with minimal amounts of contrast agents and side-effects is an important challenge in the early and accurate diagnosis of ill...

Freshwater concentrations of mercury are far greater, but eating saltwater fish poses greater health threat to humans....

On June 18, 2010, ECHA announced the addition of 8 new substances to their SVHC candidate list. These chemicals have been determined to be carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic. Companies that produce...

A japanese research team now has identified the major organo-selenium compound in tuna blood as 2-selenyl-N,N,N-trimethyl-L-histidine, a selenium analog of ergothioneine....

An international team of researchers is challenging the widespread accepted finding that hexavalent chromium is much more toxic than trivalent chromium. At least for freshwater algae they found the co...

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) released a press release on Friday, May 21st, regarding hexavalent chromium and worker knowledge of exposure. ...

Inorganic arsenic was found to be the predominant arsenic form in rice from China. Due to the high consumption of rice, arsenic intake for the Chinese population through rice is higher than from drink...