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Exposure to dioxins influences male reproductive system, study of Vietnam veterans concludes

... we did not have very good evidence whether or not dioxins affect the human reproductive system," said Dr. Am... author. "Now we know that there is a link between dioxins and the human prostate leading us to speculate that dioxins might be decreasing the growth of the pr...

Salmon go veggie to save wild fish stocks

...ulation of contaminants in salmon such as PCBs and dioxins that are present in wild marine fish. This new "vegetarian" dietary approach is increasingly being adopted and will likely be applied to many other cultured fish species in the future. ...

Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells

... source. The researchers already knew that feeding dioxins to RW1 would cause an increased enzyme level as the bacterium consumed the model pollutant. Their study shows that this increase can be easily identified by PMF using mass spectrometry. "Our procedure simplifies the entire identification process," s...

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