University of Georgia research has found that inorganic mercury, which was previously thought to be a less harmful form of the toxic metal, is very damaging to key cell processes. This study is the ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...

A 47-year-old woman in Sacramento, California, has been left severely impaired—unable to talk or care for herself and requiring a feeding tube—after using tainted face cream that contained highly ...

One of the world's most horrific environmental disasters -- the 1950 and 60s mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan -- may have been caused by a previously unstudied form of mercury discharged directly ...

Mercury occurs in three forms: elemental mercury, inorganic mercury, and organic mercury. Elemental mercury is mostly found in thermometers and certain electrical switches. Inorganic mercury is more ...

ALBINISM in citrus seedlings is not uncommon. Frost 1 suggests that its frequent production by some parents may be due primarily to heterozygosis for various genes for albinism, and perhaps to the ...