Alarming news: A new study finds that several brands of fitness tracker and smartwatch bands contain “very high ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances are synthetic chemicals that are widely used in our daily lives and in industrial ...

Sewer sludge from wastewater treatment plants appears to expose farmers and nearby neighbors to toxic "forever" chemicals, a ...

NHK investigates the issue of PFAS, synthetic chemical compounds the WHO says may cause cancer, which have been detected in ...

The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals ...

PFAS are everywhere—even when they’re not.  A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is garnering significant ...

For example, all compounds caused a gene key for neuronal cell ... structures within each type of PFAS drive changes in gene ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large class of synthetically created organic chemical compounds that have been at the forefront ...

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water ...

Investigations by European NGOs and newspapers point to a concerted industry campaign to limit incoming EU restrictions on ...

Still, the study, published in the Dec. 18 issue of ACS Chemical Neuroscience, found hundreds more genes whose expression changed in different directions based on the compound tested. Plus, there was ...

For example, all compounds caused a gene key for ... each type of PFAS drive changes in gene expression. "PFAS, despite sharing certain chemical characteristics, come in different shapes and ...