When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

Leading chemists have warned against efforts to narrow the scientific definition of PFAS. In a statement published by the ...

Learn more about the microbes that take in PFAS, the harmful, long-lasting chemicals that can hang out in the human body for years at a time.

An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until ...

"Forever chemicals" or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely used in consumer and industrial products ...

Despite its reputation as a safer chemical, PFHxA—a short-chain PFAS—may cause long-term behavioral changes when exposure ...

The clock has officially run out on the FDA’s phase-out of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in certain food ...

The newly proposed Military PFAS Transparency Act would create a public online dashboard to track clean-ups of cancer-causing ...

Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through ...

Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of ...

Scientists have demonstrated that select human gut bacteria can bioaccumulate and sequester PFAS ‘forever chemicals’, ...