Harmful algal blooms continue to threaten coastal ecosystems and seafood safety worldwide. Among the organisms involved, the benthic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum lima is a known producer of diarrhetic ...

Manipulating how much carbon dioxide a person breathes can crank up the brain's 'sewage system', researchers have found. The ...

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Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered how a diarrhea-causing strain of bacteria uses "molecular scissors" to cut open and destroy gut cells, leading to severe illness and sometimes death.

For the first time, scientists have made a definite link between the toxin produced by algae that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning and marine mammal deaths. Fur seals found dead last August on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist-in-training on his maiden expedition to the lush rainforests ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder included a shocking revelation. According to this new paper, published in ACS Environmental Au, researchers detected an unexpected ...

Researchers have found that specific gut cells, BEST4/CA7+ cells, regulate electrolyte and water balance in response to bacterial toxins that cause diarrhea. Their findings show that these cells ...

Urban fires can release all kinds of chemicals. One year after fires hit Los Angeles, scientists are trying to understand the toxic fallout.

Bengaluru, have shed new light on how "Staphylococcus aureus" (S. aureus), a common but dangerous bacterium that damages ...

Dolphins play with toxic pufferfish, showing unusual behaviour. Science reveals curiosity, nervous system effects, and intentional experimentation, debunking myths about dolphins “getting high” like ...

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