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How climate change can alter the toxicity of chemicals

10 Jan 2019November 3, 2019
This post was originally published in Envirobites Introduction We know climate change can affect our health in a multitude of ways— like by increasing rates of  many diseases and temperature-related…
Special Topics

Structure and activity

15 Aug 2018October 7, 2020
There is a reason why toxicologists love chemical structures. Because structures tell stories. And there is this cool model with a not-so-cool name that helps translate chemical goop into interesting…
Basics of Toxicology

Exposure to pollutants

19 Apr 2018February 24, 2022
Featured image: The three ways humans can get exposed to environmental pollutants. Image source: Damalas and Koutroubas et al., 2016  The concept of exposure is well-grained in our psyche. We…
Basics of Toxicology

Tracking pollutants indirectly

2 Mar 2018December 29, 2021
Featured image: Sherlock Holmes - It is elementary, my dear scientist. Image source: Employee(s) of Universal Studios [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Imagine you are Sherlock Holmes. You have a…
Basics of Toxicology

How pollutants move through us

3 Feb 2018February 24, 2022
Feature image: Movement of xenobiotics in our body First, let's learn a new term -- xenobiotic. A xenobiotic is a compound that is foreign to an organism, i.e., it does…
Basics of Toxicology

How pollutants move through the environment

28 Jan 2018October 29, 2021
Feature image: Structure of DDT. Chemical structures help determine how a chemical would move in the environment Toxicologists love chemical structures because structures tell a lot about a chemical, just…
Winner of the  General science posts and graphics category in the ScienceSeeker Awards 2019

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