Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

Methylmercury is an extremely toxic compound, and unfortunately it's often present in the fish that we eat. Scientists are ...

The results, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help researchers figure out new ways to address methylmercury poisoning. "Nobody knew how mercury is methylated ...

Australian scientists have found an effective new way to clean up methylmercury, one of the world's most dangerous pollutants ...

VIZAG: A team of scientists has made a significant breakthrough in the fight against methylmercury, a highly toxic pollutant ...

Australian scientists have discovered a means of genetically modifying animals -fruit flies and zebrafish, respectively – to ...

Using genes borrowed from bacteria, Macquarie University-led research has demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to ...

In March this year, the Kumamoto District Court ruled that some of the plaintiffs had the pollution-based disease caused by methylmercury. However, it dismissed their compensation claims on the ...

Natural bacteria absorb mercury and convert it into methylmercury, introducing it into the food chain. Small fish consume or absorb the methylmercury and are eaten by larger fish. Instead of ...

The ruling placed importance on facts concerning how the plaintiffs consumed a lot of seafood contaminated with methylmercury in their early childhoods. The special law narrowed the relief targets ...