News tagged with manganese poisoning

Understanding how bacteria come back from the dead

Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. New research involving a team ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How yeast is helping us to understand Parkinson's Disease

Teams of scientists from Australia and the United States have used yeast and mammalian cells to discover a connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study finds link between Parkinson's disease genes and manganese poisoning

A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0




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Geologists find ponds not the cause of arsenic poisoning in India's groundwater

The source of arsenic in India's groundwater continues to elude scientists more than a decade after the toxin was discovered in the water supply of the Bengal delta in India. But a recent study with a Kansas State University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Effective methods for detecting early signs of tremor

Sensitive new quantitive methods could be used to detect small signs of increased tremor and impaired motor skills caused by exposure to certain metals, and to follow up the treatment of neurological disorders, reveals a ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

EPA hears from gas drillers, angry Pa. residents

(AP) -- Federal researchers studying a natural gas drilling technique that involves blasting chemical-laced water into the ground got an earful from residents who say it's poisoning them and killing their animals and from ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

In the long run, all that ash can be a good thing

Volcano ash can wreck jet engines, poison freshwater lakes and damage lungs. But it helps fertilize oceans, volcano researchers and marine chemists say.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Tiny shelled creatures shed light on extinction and recovery 65 million years ago

An asteroid strike may not only account for the demise of ocean and land life 65 million years ago, but the fireball's path and the resulting dust, darkness and toxic metal contamination may explain the geographic ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants

Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

2nd lead poisoning case hits China, 1,300 sick

(AP) -- China detained two factory officials after 1,300 children were poisoned by pollution from a manganese processing plant, state media said Thursday, days after emissions from a lead smelter in another ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers provide solution to world's worst mass poisoning case

A solution to the world's worst case of ongoing mass poisoning, linked to rising cancer rates in Southern Asia, has been developed by researchers from Queen's University Belfast.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Geobiologists Solve 'Catch-22 Problem' Concerning the Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen

Two and a half billion years ago, when our evolutionary ancestors were little more than a twinkle in a bacterium's plasma membrane, the process known as photosynthesis suddenly gained the ability to release molecular oxygen ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (45) | comments 0

Manganese can keep toxic hydrogen sulfide zones in check in aquatic systems

Manganese, in trace amounts, is essential to human health. Now a research team from the University of Delaware, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of Hawaii and Oregon Health and Science University has discovered ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 02, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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