Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting ...

Methylmercury is the compound responsible ... experimental setups for measuring the amount and activity of potential toxins. “This will be safe and enable clinical trials to be conducted with ...

Methylmercury contamination is decreasing in some lakes in northern Minnesota as a result of reduced mercury pollution, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study published today. Mercury from ...

Understanding the internal detoxification processes of methylmercury in animals is essential for protecting wildlife and designing treatments against mercury poisoning. Alain Manceau, ESRF ...

Scientists are racing to restore Clear Lake, California's largest freshwater lake, which has been struggling with algal ...

Over 3.3 billion people rely on fish for nutrition. A study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has developed a ...

“where it becomes methylated and can enter the food chain as highly toxic methylmercury in fish,” according to WHO.