For the majority of last year, Alphaeon Corp. was the initial public offering that never happened. The Irvine-based company, which started in 2013 primarily as a “lifestyle medicine” company that ...

A chemical commonly found in seafood may lead to kidney damage – even at levels considered safe for human consumption, a new study in mice has revealed. In light of these findings, researchers are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have identified a key component in cigarette smoke that worsens pain in people with spinal cord injury, suggesting that a critical element within tobacco is ...

(Phys.org) —Patients with kidney disease have to watch what they eat: bananas, oranges, tomatoes, nuts, broccoli, and beans are all off-limits. Putting star fruit or carambola on the menu would be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A neurotoxin derived from bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract has been identified as a major contributor to ...

The neurotoxin tetrodotoxin has been found for the first time in two species living out of water. Tetrodotoxin is a potent paralysis-inducing neurotoxin found in a multitude of aquatic organisms, but ...

State officials have closed both recreational and commercial fishing for Dungeness and rock crab on the California coast north of Santa Barbara to the Oregon border, due to a large algae bloom that's ...

Biologists have found that snakes from different regions of the world have evolved a similar, remarkable resistance to a deadly neurotoxin. A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Michael ...

An enormous bloom of algae in 2015 off the U.S. West Coast created an unprecedented amount of a neurotoxin called domoic acid, which has since been found in many types of marine mammals like sea lions ...

Researchers have identified a key component in cigarette smoke that worsens pain in people with spinal cord injury, suggesting that a critical element within tobacco is responsible for such ...