Tag: Chemicals

  • Health

    Antioxidant reverses most BPA-induced fertility damage in worms

    Treatment with a naturally occurring antioxidant, CoQ10, restores many aspects of fertility in C. elegans worms following exposure to BPA. The findings offer a possible path toward undoing BPA-induced reproductive harms in people.

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    Spilled bottle of yellow capsules.
  • Science & Tech

    The unsettling chemicals around us

    There are thousands of unapproved chemicals, often banned elsewhere, in the U.S. environment, panelists at a Harvard forum say.

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  • Science & Tech

    Disclosures on fracking lacking, study finds

    Harvard researchers examined the nation’s registry, where oil and gas production companies disclose the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, and found that they do it less than in the past.

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  • Health

    Brain pollution: Common chemicals are damaging young minds

    Learning disabilities. Cerebral palsy. Mental retardation. A “silent pandemic” of these and other neurodevelopmental disorders is under way owing to industrial chemicals in the environment that impair brain development in fetuses and young children. That’s the conclusion of a data analysis by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Mount Sinai…

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