Smartphone device sniffs out toxin-producing algae in 15 minutes

A new system uses a smartphone to detect toxin-producing algae in water within 15 minutes.

National University of Singapore • futurity
Nov. 15, 2019 • ~5 min

Did great grandma’s toxin exposure shape your immune system?

New research on toxin exposure finds weakened immune response as far out as the rodent equivalent of great-grandchildren.

Mark Michaud-Rochester • futurity
Oct. 3, 2019 • ~4 min

Gina McCarthy reflects on progress 50 years after Cuyahoga River fire

Environmental protection is not a goal to achieve but a task to be undertaken by one generation and handed to the next, Gina McCarthy, the former EPA administrator and current director of Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, told the Gazette in an Earth Day interview.

Alvin Powell • harvard
April 19, 2019 • ~12 min

New drug fights back against deadly ricin toxin

Researchers have discovered a drug that can save nonhuman primates from ricin and humans could be next.

Keith Brannon-Tulane • futurity
Jan. 23, 2019 • ~2 min

Toxic diet shields water fleas from parasites

Daphnia, called water fleas, gain protection from parasites from toxins in the cyanobacteria they eat. Are they self-medicating?

Jim Erickson-Michigan • futurity
Jan. 22, 2019 • ~7 min

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