Cadmium (Cd) contamination poses a serious threat to global food safety. As a toxic and carcinogenic heavy metal, cadmium can ...

It’s not the heavy metal you want to rock. A new investigation by the Sunday Times found that several pieces of “silver” ...

Cadmium is considered even more hazardous than mercury regarding long-term toxicity.

Water-saving irrigation practices, including intermittent irrigation, are essential for sustainable rice cultivation amid ...

This study, led by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers Jennifer L. Larson-Casey, Ph.D., and A. Brent Carter, M.D., is based on an underserved, primarily African American community that is ...

A new study finds that adults who simply breathe in secondhand cigarette smoke have about 1.5 times more of the toxin cadmium ...

People with higher levels of cadmium in their urine—evidence of chronic exposure to the heavy metal found in industrial emissions and tobacco smoke—appear to be nearly 3.5 times more likely to die of ...

Dark chocolate has long been called a "healthy candy" for its heart-healthy antioxidants and low in sugar. And that's all true, but it doesn't tell the full story. In the worst cases, they found more ...

Based on the strong similarity between cadmium mutagenesis and the mutator effects of MMR-null alleles, we conclude that cadmium is a new kind of mutagen that acts by inhibiting the MMR system rather ...

Researchers have chased the source of cacao's cadmium contamination for years, but an array of distinct sampling methods and sites led to mixed results. In a new analysis, scientists consider the soil ...