Exposure to heavy metals is linked to lower egg count in women approaching menopause, according to new research led by a team at the University of Michigan (UM), US. The study examined how exposure to metals – including arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead – relates to concentrations of the ovarian reserve marker anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) […]

A new £750,000 facility housing ‘state-of-the-art’ microscopes and spectrometers has been opened in Oxfordshire by the government’s chief scientific adviser, Dame Angela McLean. The UK Centre for Multimodal Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy (CoreMIS) offers users access to electron microscopy, fluorescent microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and x-ray techniques that can be combined for detailed analysis of samples […]

Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted between people in rare circumstances as a result of medical procedures. This discovery comes following an investigation of unusually young Alzheimer’s patients in the UK who had all received growth hormones as children. The hormones came from the pituitary glands of deceased individuals, a procedure banned in 1985 after it […]

Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted between people in rare circumstances as a result of medical procedures. This discovery comes following an investigation of unusually young Alzheimer’s patients in the UK who had all received growth hormones as children. The hormones came from the pituitary glands of deceased individuals, a procedure banned in 1985 after it […]