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Toxin: an antigenic poison or venom of plant or animal origin, especially one produced by or derived from microorganisms and causing disease when present at low concentration in the body.
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JUL 14, 2015Plants & Animals
Are you able to tell the difference between a piece of tilapia versus a piece of grouper? What about of piece of wild sa ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUL 07, 2015Videos
Each year in the United States approximately 1 in 6 Americans will contract a foodborne illness. In order to estimate th ...Written By: Sarah HertrichMAY 29, 2015Plants & Animals
In the Mekong region of Thailand, you will find a really unique species of wasp that hunts and devours cockroaches in pr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 24, 2015Health & Medicine
Obesity has long been a global epidemic with an estimated 2.8 million people dying each year from associated complicatio ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAY 11, 2015Neuroscience
More than 100 million Americans are victims of chronic pain, resulting in annual costs of approximately $600 billion in ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 04, 2015Plants & Animals
Who doesn't like the sight of a fat, fuzzy bumblebee, zipping along the flowers, making sure they all get pollinated?Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 29, 2015Earth & The Environment
When we think of bees, we think of fuzzy little pollinators zipping among flowers, making them grow. Or busy groups of h ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 16, 2015Neuroscience
New research might bring a frown to even the most heavily botoxed faces, with scientists finding how some of the potent ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 15, 2015Immunology
Researchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio revealed the mol ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 02, 2015Microbiology
The Bacillus cereus bacteria is one of the potential causes of food poisoning. Indeed, a recent study in Analytical and ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 24, 2015Plants & Animals
Aside from giving us the phrase "to play possum," it could be argued opossums haven't really contributed all that much t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 25, 2015Health & Medicine
With antibiotic resistance on the rise, scientists are looking for innovative ways to combat bacterial infections. The p ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeDEC 24, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Premature ovarian failure, also known as primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), affects 1 percent of all women worldwide. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderDEC 03, 2014Videos
There are natural poisons that lurk in bacteria, plants, and fungi pretty much everywhere, and they're there for goo ...Written By: Robert WoodardNOV 17, 2014Technology
PathSensors Inc. (www.PathSensors.com), a Baltimore-based biotechnology and environmental testing company, is developing ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 18, 2014Microbiology
UC Irvine School of Medicine researchers have learned how bacterial toxins that cause food-borne botulism are absorbed t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 10, 2014Genetics & Genomics
At Forbes magazine's June Techonomy conference, Nancy J. Kelly former founding director of the New York Genome Center ga ...Written By: Peter MicheliAPR 03, 2014Technology
Animal testing is a distasteful part of chemical and drug development, and some have argued that it is unnecessary and/o ...MAR 26, 2014Chemistry & Physics
Imagine a chemical weapons, explosives, or toxins detection system that can produce its own energy and survive in harsh ...MAR 25, 2014Microbiology
Antibiotics have become increasingly less effective in the last few years, due in part to overuse and the subsequent res ...DEC 23, 2013Chemistry & Physics
Large, supramolecular complexes that use non-covalent bonding to retain their structure are gaining popularity within th ...DEC 12, 2013Microbiology
The phrase "blood clot" rarely has a positive spin-most people associate blood clots with traumatic and potentially fata ...JUL 14, 2015Plants & Animals
Are you able to tell the difference between a piece of tilapia versus a piece of grouper? What about of piece of wild sa ...Written By: Sarah HertrichJUL 07, 2015Videos
Each year in the United States approximately 1 in 6 Americans will contract a foodborne illness. In order to estimate th ...Written By: Sarah HertrichMAY 29, 2015Plants & Animals
In the Mekong region of Thailand, you will find a really unique species of wasp that hunts and devours cockroaches in pr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 24, 2015Health & Medicine
Obesity has long been a global epidemic with an estimated 2.8 million people dying each year from associated complicatio ...Written By: Jennifer EllisMAY 11, 2015Neuroscience
More than 100 million Americans are victims of chronic pain, resulting in annual costs of approximately $600 billion in ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 04, 2015Plants & Animals
Who doesn't like the sight of a fat, fuzzy bumblebee, zipping along the flowers, making sure they all get pollinated?Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 29, 2015Earth & The Environment
When we think of bees, we think of fuzzy little pollinators zipping among flowers, making them grow. Or busy groups of h ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 16, 2015Neuroscience
New research might bring a frown to even the most heavily botoxed faces, with scientists finding how some of the potent ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 15, 2015Immunology
Researchers from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio revealed the mol ...Written By: Will HectorAPR 02, 2015Microbiology
The Bacillus cereus bacteria is one of the potential causes of food poisoning. Indeed, a recent study in Analytical and ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 24, 2015Plants & Animals
Aside from giving us the phrase "to play possum," it could be argued opossums haven't really contributed all that much t ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimFEB 25, 2015Health & Medicine
With antibiotic resistance on the rise, scientists are looking for innovative ways to combat bacterial infections. The p ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeDEC 24, 2014Genetics & Genomics
Premature ovarian failure, also known as primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), affects 1 percent of all women worldwide. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderDEC 03, 2014Videos
There are natural poisons that lurk in bacteria, plants, and fungi pretty much everywhere, and they're there for goo ...Written By: Robert WoodardNOV 17, 2014Technology
PathSensors Inc. (www.PathSensors.com), a Baltimore-based biotechnology and environmental testing company, is developing ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 18, 2014Microbiology
UC Irvine School of Medicine researchers have learned how bacterial toxins that cause food-borne botulism are absorbed t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 10, 2014Genetics & Genomics
At Forbes magazine's June Techonomy conference, Nancy J. Kelly former founding director of the New York Genome Center ga ...Written By: Peter MicheliAPR 03, 2014Technology
Animal testing is a distasteful part of chemical and drug development, and some have argued that it is unnecessary and/o ...MAR 26, 2014Chemistry & Physics
Imagine a chemical weapons, explosives, or toxins detection system that can produce its own energy and survive in harsh ...MAR 25, 2014Microbiology
Antibiotics have become increasingly less effective in the last few years, due in part to overuse and the subsequent res ...DEC 23, 2013Chemistry & Physics
Large, supramolecular complexes that use non-covalent bonding to retain their structure are gaining popularity within th ...DEC 12, 2013Microbiology
The phrase "blood clot" rarely has a positive spin-most people associate blood clots with traumatic and potentially fata ...
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