Latest Toxin Stories
New research in The FASEB Journal shows that toxins taken from the venom of sea anemones could be the next wave of insecticides and may even be used to treat pain, cardiac disorders and other conditions As insects evolve to become resistant to insecticides, the need to develop new ways to control pests grows. A team of scientists from Leuven, Belgium have discovered that the sea anemone's venom harbors several toxins that promise to become a new generation of insecticides that are...
HOUSTON, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new website, www.Ohealth.com, tackles controversial topics relating to alternative medicine. The majority of the site's information goes against mainstream medicine and covers our current healthcare system, natural and organic health, and environmental toxins. An accumulation of toxins in the body is what Dr. Edward F. Group III, founder and CEO of Global Healing Center, calls the "root cause of disease." Toxicity is defined on two levels,...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A researcher at the University of Connecticut and his team have discovered that a species of tiny aquatic organism prominent in harmful algal blooms sometimes called "red tide" is even deadlier than first thought, with potential consequences for entire marine food chains. Professor Hans Dam along with his research group in the school's Department of Marine Sciences have discovered that the plankton species Alexandrium tamarense...
Sanford-Burnham researchers determine the first 3D structure of the botulinum neurotoxin, together with the protein bodyguard that guides it through the body—revealing weak spots that could be exploited to develop new counterterrorism measures. La Jolla, Calif. (PRWEB) February 23, 2012 Researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) and the Medical School of Hannover in Germany recently discovered how the botulinum neurotoxin, a potential bioterrorism agent,...
Essential Safe Products (ESP) has announced that as the official featured sponsor of the 54th Annual GRAMMY® Awards Talent Gift Lounge, it will be bringing a non-toxic, food-safe, and eco-friendly lifestyle to presenters and performers of Music's Biggest Night®, which will be broadcast live on Sunday, February 12 on the CBS Television Network from 8 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). Plantation, Florida (PRWEB) February 11, 2012 As the featured sponsor of the Official Talent Gift...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Quanterix Corporation, a company enabling a new generation of molecular diagnostic tests based on its revolutionary Single Molecule Array (SiMoA(TM)) technology, announced today that it has been awarded a one year $250,155 contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an assay capable of detecting single molecules of botulinum toxin (BoNT) within complex environmental samples. In collaboration with the Botulinum...
The most poisonous substance on Earth — already used medically in small doses to treat certain nerve disorders and facial wrinkles — could be re-engineered for an expanded role in helping millions of people with rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, psoriasis and other diseases, scientists are reporting. Their study appears in ACS' journal Biochemistry. Edwin Chapman and colleagues explain that toxins, or poisons, produced by Clostridium botulinum bacteria, cause of a rare but severe form of...
A slight change in molecular structure introduced by genetic engineering gives crop-protecting proteins called Bt toxins a new edge in overcoming resistance of certain pests, a UA-led team of researchers reports in Nature Biotechnology One of the most successful strategies in pest control is to endow crop plants with genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt for short, which code for proteins that kill pests attempting to eat them. But insect pests are evolving resistance...
DTRA is supporting a USAMRIID clinical study to evaluate a vaccine against ricin toxin. Fort Belvoir, VA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 18, 2011 The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is supporting a clinical study now underway by the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) to evaluate a vaccine against ricin toxin. This is a critical milestone for DTRA's Chemical/Biological Technologies Directorate Translational Medicine Science & Technology Division (CBM)...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Spider venom could hold the key to understanding how the body operates. Researchers have discovered a toxin from the American Funnel Web spider acts on T-type and N-type calcium channels. They say the toxin offers a new target for studying T-type channels, which play a role in congestive heart failure, hypertension, epilepsy and pain.The investigators, from the University of California at Riverside, purified the toxin and created a recombinant version. "If we can...
