#neurotoxin — Public Fediverse posts

The #EPA on Friday weakened #pollution limits for #coal burning power plants, allowing them to release more #HeavyMetals including #mercury, a powerful #neurotoxin linked to #BrainDamage.

The move was one of many efforts by the #Trump admin to revive the declining US coal industry, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning coal is harming #PublicHealth & driving dangerous levels of #GlobalWarming. Coal is the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.

#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #EPA on Friday weakened #pollution limits for #coal burning power plants, allowing them to release more #HeavyMetals including #mercury, a powerful #neurotoxin linked to #BrainDamage.

The move was one of many efforts by the #Trump admin to revive the declining US coal industry, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning coal is harming #PublicHealth & driving dangerous levels of #GlobalWarming. Coal is the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.

#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #EPA on Friday weakened #pollution limits for #coal burning power plants, allowing them to release more #HeavyMetals including #mercury, a powerful #neurotoxin linked to #BrainDamage.

The move was one of many efforts by the #Trump admin to revive the declining US coal industry, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning coal is harming #PublicHealth & driving dangerous levels of #GlobalWarming. Coal is the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.

#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #EPA on Friday weakened #pollution limits for #coal burning power plants, allowing them to release more #HeavyMetals including #mercury, a powerful #neurotoxin linked to #BrainDamage.

The move was one of many efforts by the #Trump admin to revive the declining US coal industry, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning coal is harming #PublicHealth & driving dangerous levels of #GlobalWarming. Coal is the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.

#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The #EPA on Friday weakened #pollution limits for #coal burning power plants, allowing them to release more #HeavyMetals including #mercury, a powerful #neurotoxin linked to #BrainDamage.

The move was one of many efforts by the #Trump admin to revive the declining US coal industry, despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning coal is harming #PublicHealth & driving dangerous levels of #GlobalWarming. Coal is the dirtiest of the #FossilFuels.

#law #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#safely eradicate #parasites via #gene-drive
#medical : lice, scabies : #gene_drive
#lice (body, pubic, head) & #mites (' #scabies ') and #bedbugs have no #natural_predators , it would be fantastically amazing to have a #genedrive to #eradicate the sometimes-lethal insects. Last year, it was widely reported, one on the east coast had died -- was literally eaten alive by a parasite colony in jail. No treatment had been granted, despite repeat complaints. More recently, prisoners in #ice jails, families & children in #Gaza , and held in #Israeli #prisons have reported being deliberately #infected with scabies and lice, suffering horribly. Also #RX #treatment_resistance - much like #antibiotic_resistance w #superbugs - to conventional RX (#antiparasitics ) has skyrocketed: in late 1990s, efficacy was ~97% in USA. But a decade ago by 2016, dropped to ~35%. Today, the identical treatment is prescribed as 30 years ago. Finally, said #drugs = #neurotoxin #nerve_damage . A #genedrive could fix all of that. What is it? A gene edit which makes 100% of all offspring male: no females = inability to #reproduce and it perpetuates every generation so an edited male reproduces w nonedited female and all eggs become male, also carrying the gene-edit.... And eventually the colony depopulates entirely. A very fast & effective cure ..... versus.... a months-long hopeless battle dousing one's body in vinegar, daily, plus numerous other toxins & nerve damage.

#safely eradicate #parasites via #gene-drive
#medical : lice, scabies : #gene_drive
#lice (body, pubic, head) & #mites (' #scabies ') and #bedbugs have no #natural_predators , it would be fantastically amazing to have a #genedrive to #eradicate the sometimes-lethal insects. Last year, it was widely reported, one on the east coast had died -- was literally eaten alive by a parasite colony in jail. No treatment had been granted, despite repeat complaints. More recently, prisoners in #ice jails, families & children in #Gaza , and held in #Israeli #prisons have reported being deliberately #infected with scabies and lice, suffering horribly. Also #RX #treatment_resistance - much like #antibiotic_resistance w #superbugs - to conventional RX (#antiparasitics ) has skyrocketed: in late 1990s, efficacy was ~97% in USA. But a decade ago by 2016, dropped to ~35%. Today, the identical treatment is prescribed as 30 years ago. Finally, said #drugs = #neurotoxin #nerve_damage . A #genedrive could fix all of that. What is it? A gene edit which makes 100% of all offspring male: no females = inability to #reproduce and it perpetuates every generation so an edited male reproduces w nonedited female and all eggs become male, also carrying the gene-edit.... And eventually the colony depopulates entirely. A very fast & effective cure ..... versus.... a months-long hopeless battle dousing one's body in vinegar, daily, plus numerous other toxins & nerve damage.

#safely eradicate #parasites via #gene-drive
#medical : lice, scabies : #gene_drive
#lice (body, pubic, head) & #mites (' #scabies ') and #bedbugs have no #natural_predators , it would be fantastically amazing to have a #genedrive to #eradicate the sometimes-lethal insects. Last year, it was widely reported, one on the east coast had died -- was literally eaten alive by a parasite colony in jail. No treatment had been granted, despite repeat complaints. More recently, prisoners in #ice jails, families & children in #Gaza , and held in #Israeli #prisons have reported being deliberately #infected with scabies and lice, suffering horribly. Also #RX #treatment_resistance - much like #antibiotic_resistance w #superbugs - to conventional RX (#antiparasitics ) has skyrocketed: in late 1990s, efficacy was ~97% in USA. But a decade ago by 2016, dropped to ~35%. Today, the identical treatment is prescribed as 30 years ago. Finally, said #drugs = #neurotoxin #nerve_damage . A #genedrive could fix all of that. What is it? A gene edit which makes 100% of all offspring male: no females = inability to #reproduce and it perpetuates every generation so an edited male reproduces w nonedited female and all eggs become male, also carrying the gene-edit.... And eventually the colony depopulates entirely. A very fast & effective cure ..... versus.... a months-long hopeless battle dousing one's body in vinegar, daily, plus numerous other toxins & nerve damage.

#safely eradicate #parasites via #gene-drive
#medical : lice, scabies : #gene_drive
#lice (body, pubic, head) & #mites (' #scabies ') and #bedbugs have no #natural_predators , it would be fantastically amazing to have a #genedrive to #eradicate the sometimes-lethal insects. Last year, it was widely reported, one on the east coast had died -- was literally eaten alive by a parasite colony in jail. No treatment had been granted, despite repeat complaints. More recently, prisoners in #ice jails, families & children in #Gaza , and held in #Israeli #prisons have reported being deliberately #infected with scabies and lice, suffering horribly. Also #RX #treatment_resistance - much like #antibiotic_resistance w #superbugs - to conventional RX (#antiparasitics ) has skyrocketed: in late 1990s, efficacy was ~97% in USA. But a decade ago by 2016, dropped to ~35%. Today, the identical treatment is prescribed as 30 years ago. Finally, said #drugs = #neurotoxin #nerve_damage . A #genedrive could fix all of that. What is it? A gene edit which makes 100% of all offspring male: no females = inability to #reproduce and it perpetuates every generation so an edited male reproduces w nonedited female and all eggs become male, also carrying the gene-edit.... And eventually the colony depopulates entirely. A very fast & effective cure ..... versus.... a months-long hopeless battle dousing one's body in vinegar, daily, plus numerous other toxins & nerve damage.

#safely eradicate #parasites via #gene-drive
#medical : lice, scabies : #gene_drive
#lice (body, pubic, head) & #mites (' #scabies ') and #bedbugs have no #natural_predators , it would be fantastically amazing to have a #genedrive to #eradicate the sometimes-lethal insects. Last year, it was widely reported, one on the east coast had died -- was literally eaten alive by a parasite colony in jail. No treatment had been granted, despite repeat complaints. More recently, prisoners in #ice jails, families & children in #Gaza , and held in #Israeli #prisons have reported being deliberately #infected with scabies and lice, suffering horribly. Also #RX #treatment_resistance - much like #antibiotic_resistance w #superbugs - to conventional RX (#antiparasitics ) has skyrocketed: in late 1990s, efficacy was ~97% in USA. But a decade ago by 2016, dropped to ~35%. Today, the identical treatment is prescribed as 30 years ago. Finally, said #drugs = #neurotoxin #nerve_damage . A #genedrive could fix all of that. What is it? A gene edit which makes 100% of all offspring male: no females = inability to #reproduce and it perpetuates every generation so an edited male reproduces w nonedited female and all eggs become male, also carrying the gene-edit.... And eventually the colony depopulates entirely. A very fast & effective cure ..... versus.... a months-long hopeless battle dousing one's body in vinegar, daily, plus numerous other toxins & nerve damage.

Climate-driven #oxygen loss in the Black Sea thousands of years ago triggered the expansion of #microorganisms capable of producing the potent #neurotoxin #methylmercury.
#Environmental #MarineBiology #Microbiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/env10102501.html

Are #MicroPlastics going to be to the modern age, what lead plumbing was to the Roman empire because of its #neurotoxicity? A more wide-spread and longer-lived version of lead additives in gasoline in the 80s-90s. Are we making ourselves more stupid by using/ingesting plastics and causing our own demise?

#plastic #neurotoxin #toxic #neurology #pollution #recycle #recycling #CorporateGreed #TooBigTooFail #oil #OPEC #Fracking

Colorado’s Subalpine Wetlands May Be Producing A Toxic Form Of Mercury – That’s A Concern For Downstream Water Supplies
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https://theconversation.com/colorados-subalpine-wetlands-may-be-producing-a-toxic-form-of-mercury-thats-a-concern-for-downstream-water-supplies-259008 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add8a5 <-- shared paper / USGS publication
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #natural #contamination #mercury #Colorado #wetlands #RockyMountains ##subalpine #waterquality #water #hydrology #watersupply #potable #risk #hazard #soils #methylmercury #heavymetal #wildlife #thaw #climatechange #neurotoxin #publichealth #Minamata #Niigata #Japan #bioaccumulation #sulfate #organic #common
#USGS

Colorado’s Subalpine Wetlands May Be Producing A Toxic Form Of Mercury – That’s A Concern For Downstream Water Supplies
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https://theconversation.com/colorados-subalpine-wetlands-may-be-producing-a-toxic-form-of-mercury-thats-a-concern-for-downstream-water-supplies-259008 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add8a5 <-- shared paper / USGS publication
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #natural #contamination #mercury #Colorado #wetlands #RockyMountains ##subalpine #waterquality #water #hydrology #watersupply #potable #risk #hazard #soils #methylmercury #heavymetal #wildlife #thaw #climatechange #neurotoxin #publichealth #Minamata #Niigata #Japan #bioaccumulation #sulfate #organic #common
#USGS

Colorado’s Subalpine Wetlands May Be Producing A Toxic Form Of Mercury – That’s A Concern For Downstream Water Supplies
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https://theconversation.com/colorados-subalpine-wetlands-may-be-producing-a-toxic-form-of-mercury-thats-a-concern-for-downstream-water-supplies-259008 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add8a5 <-- shared paper / USGS publication
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #natural #contamination #mercury #Colorado #wetlands #RockyMountains ##subalpine #waterquality #water #hydrology #watersupply #potable #risk #hazard #soils #methylmercury #heavymetal #wildlife #thaw #climatechange #neurotoxin #publichealth #Minamata #Niigata #Japan #bioaccumulation #sulfate #organic #common
#USGS

Colorado’s Subalpine Wetlands May Be Producing A Toxic Form Of Mercury – That’s A Concern For Downstream Water Supplies
--
https://theconversation.com/colorados-subalpine-wetlands-may-be-producing-a-toxic-form-of-mercury-thats-a-concern-for-downstream-water-supplies-259008 <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add8a5 <-- shared paper / USGS publication
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #natural #contamination #mercury #Colorado #wetlands #RockyMountains ##subalpine #waterquality #water #hydrology #watersupply #potable #risk #hazard #soils #methylmercury #heavymetal #wildlife #thaw #climatechange #neurotoxin #publichealth #Minamata #Niigata #Japan #bioaccumulation #sulfate #organic #common
#USGS

Colorado’s Subalpine Wetlands May Be Producing A Toxic Form Of Mercury – That’s A Concern For Downstream Water Supplies
--
https://theconversation.com/colorados-subalpine-wetlands-may-be-producing-a-toxic-form-of-mercury-thats-a-concern-for-downstream-water-supplies-259008 <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/add8a5 <-- shared paper / USGS publication
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #natural #contamination #mercury #Colorado #wetlands #RockyMountains ##subalpine #waterquality #water #hydrology #watersupply #potable #risk #hazard #soils #methylmercury #heavymetal #wildlife #thaw #climatechange #neurotoxin #publichealth #Minamata #Niigata #Japan #bioaccumulation #sulfate #organic #common
#USGS

The #FlintWaterCrisis began in 2014, when the city, while under emergency management from the state, switched water sources from the #Detroit Water & Sewerage Dept to the #Flint River as a cost-cutting measure. State ofcls overseeing the switch failed to ensure #corrosion-control measures were taken for the more acidic river #water. #Lead, a #neurotoxin particularly dangerous to #children, leached from aged service lines into the city's water supply as a result.

#law #regulation #Michigan

Botulinum toxin A1, better known under the brand name #Botox, is not only a popular cosmetic agent, but also a highly effective #bacterial #neurotoxin that – when carefully dosed – can be used as a drug. It blocks the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles
#Biology #Biomolecular #Biomedical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/bio02112501.html

lead pollution #neurotoxin
https://earthjustice.org/action/tell-the-epa-to-ban-a-significant-source-of-lead-now?ms=email&sourceid=1046756&utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_term=action&utm_campaign=240400_Email_Action_LeadWheelWeights_Tox&utm_content=HTMLBodyLink2&contactdata=CnI7jI+HDP8tZM94AOivgXxGULOjECM625yUbvPIpT7sa0VikSW8oD87zg0sKGsLZJ1LOmLrNrgspr1UZtr9QNzHjsJuxfZjH53vFeoz2mGdQ6bGwopymAZgw2CquVzlp%2fTXNiqEW7srYlmqvBTdLMvn2mF4cDa5V8QzTCgsyB+b89iqwBkBpnQkMsxxq+dAzxmrLiEWxvaIWiXmqYadmZJpnvnegX3NDPT+7Bd+jkv+cET6RQe0ZKzsp9UZ%2fNIE&emci=59ac5cdb-8c02-ef11-96f3-7c1e521b07f9&emdi=80696616-2b06-ef11-96f3-7c1e521b07f9&ceid=1379197

A #vine-like plant such as #BlackBryony grows pretty much anywhere and everywhere in our #wood, given half a chance, and is almost as resistant as the thickets of #brambles. The red #berries have come out on this one, but are of the *DO NOT EAT* kind. They contain, among others, a #neurotoxin known as #dioscorine.
#auvergne
#france
#vine
#poisonous
#autumn

Do #cyanobacteria make the #neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine?.

#BMAA

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-cyanobacteria-neurotoxin-n-methylamino-l-alanine.html

Do #cyanobacteria make the #neurotoxin β-N-methylamino-L-alanine?.

#BMAA

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-cyanobacteria-neurotoxin-n-methylamino-l-alanine.html

#NASA #scientists test new tool for tracking #AlgalBlooms https://phys.org/news/2023-09-nasa-scientists-tool-tracking-algal.html

First Light Demonstration of Red Solar Induced #Fluorescence for #HarmfulAlgalBlooms Monitoring https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101715

"#space-based instrument #TROPOMI was able to peer through thin #clouds to uncover powerful clues about #Karenia brevis... K. brevis events are especially concerning because the #algae produce a potent #neurotoxin that in high concentrations can cause massive #fish kills and poison #MarineLife."

@NatalieDavis

"Sealions, Dude, I told you ...!

A #neurotoxin causes #sealions to bite people ...

https://mastodon.nu/@Gjallarhornet/110683013200540507

Scientists say poisonous #pea could be made vital climate crisis #crop

#Lathyrus #gene_editing #climatechange #FoodSecurity #genomics #ODAP #neurotoxin

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/08/uk-scientists-could-make-poisonous-grass-pea-a-valuable-food-crop

The decision announced Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management followed an outcry by #environmentalists and others who worried that dispersing 670 gallons (2,536 liters) of #carbaryl — a potent #neurotoxin — would also kill bees, monarch butterflies and other insects vital to the area’s ecosystem.
#BLM

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-land-managers-call-off-pesticide-spraying-rio-100579779

In issue 13:
Highlight on #FBXL4 E3 controlling basal mitophagy via NIX/#BNIP3 degradation
#Salicylic acid attenuates #brassinosteroid signaling by removing S-acylation from proteins
#Nucleoporin foci as stress-sensitive condensates
Mechanism of #botulinum #neurotoxin presynaptic targeting
Cover: Natalia Prevarskaya and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/toc/14602075/2023/42/13

In issue 13:
Highlight on #FBXL4 E3 controlling basal mitophagy via NIX/#BNIP3 degradation
#Salicylic acid attenuates #brassinosteroid signaling by removing S-acylation from proteins
#Nucleoporin foci as stress-sensitive condensates
Mechanism of #botulinum #neurotoxin presynaptic targeting
Cover: Natalia Prevarskaya and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/toc/14602075/2023/42/13

In issue 13:
Highlight on #FBXL4 E3 controlling basal mitophagy via NIX/#BNIP3 degradation
#Salicylic acid attenuates #brassinosteroid signaling by removing S-acylation from proteins
#Nucleoporin foci as stress-sensitive condensates
Mechanism of #botulinum #neurotoxin presynaptic targeting
Cover: Natalia Prevarskaya and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/toc/14602075/2023/42/13

In issue 13:
Highlight on #FBXL4 E3 controlling basal mitophagy via NIX/#BNIP3 degradation
#Salicylic acid attenuates #brassinosteroid signaling by removing S-acylation from proteins
#Nucleoporin foci as stress-sensitive condensates
Mechanism of #botulinum #neurotoxin presynaptic targeting
Cover: Natalia Prevarskaya and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/toc/14602075/2023/42/13

In issue 13:
Highlight on #FBXL4 E3 controlling basal mitophagy via NIX/#BNIP3 degradation
#Salicylic acid attenuates #brassinosteroid signaling by removing S-acylation from proteins
#Nucleoporin foci as stress-sensitive condensates
Mechanism of #botulinum #neurotoxin presynaptic targeting
Cover: Natalia Prevarskaya and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/toc/14602075/2023/42/13

Findings of the new study shows that a single injection of the precisely engineered #botulinum #neurotoxin provides long-lasting relief in mice models, without adverse effects.
#Botox #Pharmaceutical #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/phar04112301.html

Findings of the new study shows that a single injection of the precisely engineered #botulinum #neurotoxin provides long-lasting relief in mice models, without adverse effects.
#Botox #Pharmaceutical #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/phar04112301.html

Findings of the new study shows that a single injection of the precisely engineered #botulinum #neurotoxin provides long-lasting relief in mice models, without adverse effects.
#Botox #Pharmaceutical #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/phar04112301.html

Findings of the new study shows that a single injection of the precisely engineered #botulinum #neurotoxin provides long-lasting relief in mice models, without adverse effects.
#Botox #Pharmaceutical #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/phar04112301.html

Findings of the new study shows that a single injection of the precisely engineered #botulinum #neurotoxin provides long-lasting relief in mice models, without adverse effects.
#Botox #Pharmaceutical #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/phar04112301.html

Two new species of poisonous birds found in New Guinea's rainforest.

The toxin, called Batrachotoxin, is the same one found in the skin of poison dart frogs, and like the frogs' toxin, it is derived from poisonous food they consume, which is then stored in the feathers.

A researcher described the effects: "The locals aren't fond of spicy food and steer clear of these birds, because, according to them, their meat burns in the mouth like chili. In fact that's how researchers first became aware of them. And the toxin can be felt when holding onto one of them. It feels kind of unpleasant, and hanging on to one for long isn't an appealing option. This could indicate that the poison serves them as a deterrence of those who would want to eat them to some degree," explains Jønsson."

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-birds-neurotoxin-laden-feathers-guinea.html

#birds #birdsofmastodon #NewGuinea #neurotoxin #ornithology