The findings “show how a gatekeeper [protein] keeps arsenate out [of bacteria], so levels don’t accumulate and the bacteria don’t have to worry about toxic effects,” said Ronald Viola, a chemist at ...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, gold medalist at the 2024 Olympics, faces controversy over a leaked medical report suggesting she has 5-alpha reductase deficiency Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who ...

However, the latest report suggests that the Olympic champion may have a condition known as 5-alpha reductase deficiency. But what exactly is this disorder? What is 5-Alpha Reductase Deficiency?

“It was pesticides like Lead Arsenate and its more lethal replacement DDT that lead to lower spine lesions through the gut.” The post received more than 10,000 likes in five days. Dr. Yvonne ...

The enzyme is known as HMG-CoA reductase, and to doctors, it is not obscure. It is, in fact, the very enzyme that statins block in the process of halting cholesterol production. And so ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 17, 2021) Lead arsenate pesticides continue to contaminate Central Washington residential areas that were once tree fruit orchards. Although these toxic legacy pesticides have ...

If not reined in, the moths could destroy most of an orchard’s apple crop. Lead arsenate, which was introduced in Massachusetts in 1892 to control gypsy moths, was seen as a way to combat ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Arsenate reductase (ArsC) is a superfamily of enzymes that reduce arsenate. Due to active site similarities, ...

Much of the city of Yakima is built on old orchard lands, acres of which were sprayed with lead arsenate to kill insects prior to the 1940s, when farmers started using DDT instead. DDT is also no ...

GST is an arsenate reductase, which serves as a catalyst to turn arsenate from the soil into arsenite, the form of arsenic that can be sequestered. The GAPC1 protein in other plants uses phosphate to ...