a blog by the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
As the Director of the Great Lakes Genomics Center in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Professor Rebecca Klaper researches emerging contaminants such as nanomaterials and pharmaceuticals and how they affect freshwater organisms. In this episode we interview Dr. Klaper about the future of emerging contaminants and how her work relates …
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The Swiss Renaissance physician, alchemist and founder of toxicology Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus (!) von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (Figure 1), said it well: āAll substances are poisons; there is none that is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.ā Or more compactly, āthe dose makes the poison.ā Researchers …
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How do we stay safe in a world full of chemicals? Everywhere we look, we find chemistry ā both natural and synthetic ā at work in the air we breathe, the ground we stand on, and in the water we drink. Internally, every cell in our body uses chemistry in order to function and communicate. …
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