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09/23/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Arsenic in drinking water: A piece of the diabetes puzzle?

Being exposed to arsenic over a prolonged period of time can increase the likelihood of diabetes, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. Researchers from the University of Chicago, University of Albany, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago used male mouse […]

07/08/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Geoscientist analyzes how contaminants, including bacteria and viruses, move through groundwater

It’s a topic that many of us don’t give much thought: How exactly do bacteria and viruses make their way through groundwater? Countless people can be sickened when this happens after flooding or heavy rains, for example, but what occurs on the microscopic level when this happens is largely a mystery. William Johnson, a geoscientist from […]

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