Eating sushi can increase risk of cardiovascular disease. A recent study showed that tuna sashimi contains the highest levels of methylmercury in fish-sushi, based on samples taken from across the USA ...

Microbes that live in rice paddies, northern peat bogs and other previously unexpected environments are among the bacteria that can generate highly toxic methylmercury, researchers have learned.

Researchers from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences revealed the molecular mechanism underlying increased risk of heart failure during hemodynamic load by methylmercury exposure. They ...

Scientists have identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity ...

Researchers at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, together with CNRS, ENS Lyon and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, have unveiled how Atlantic Bluefin tuna transforms the toxic form of ...

Mountain streams are an angler's paradise: sun-dappled, gurgling, and teeming with fish. Yet those cold, clear waters also contain methylmercury, a neurotoxin that bioaccumulates in living tissues.

Erica Weir's otherwise excellent public health article on the risks of methylmercury was flawed by misinformation on the clinical management of patients with methylmercury poisoning.1 The information ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, the thawing of permafrost in Arctic areas is being accelerated and mercury that has been trapped in the frozen ground is now being released in various forms ...

Coastal fog may be carrying toxic levels of methylmercury, which is then dumped on the land and makes its way up the food chain and contaminates mountain lions living in the region, according to a ...

a Also known as metallic mercury. b Also known as calomel. c Methylmercuric chloride is used experimentally to investigate the effects of methylmercury. tion on some toxicologically relevant Hg ...

Microbes that live in rice paddies, northern peat lands and beyond are among the several types of bacteria researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and Oak Ridge National ...