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Pesticides need sunscreen to beat the heat
A pesticide with a new in-built sunscreen will help farmers beat the heat in crop protection. This means that the bug sprays last longer, as they are protected from the strong rays of sunshine, reports Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI.   view more (2006-12-18)

Call for Change to Pesticide Build-up Tests
Current methods of predicting short-term intake of pesticide residues by humans should be improved, according to a new study published in the journal Pest Management Science. In the article, researchers from around the world come together to review existing safety measures and make eleven... view more (2004-03-10)

Defeating the 'superpests'
Scientists have developed a new technique that makes pesticides more effective by removing insects' ability to exhibit resistance.   view more (2005-10-10)

Pesticide Science Becomes Pest Management Science: Relaunched Journal is Pick of the Crop
Tuesday 4 April 2000, SCI International Headquarters, London, UK. The SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (SCI) is celebrating the re-launch of its learned journal Pesticide Science, now renamed PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE. First published in 1969, Pesticide Science has a strong international following and... view more (2000-03-29)

Prenatal Pesticide Exposure May Lead to High Blood Pressure and a Decreased Neurological Ability to Copy Shapes In Childhood
Children in Ecuador whose mothers were exposed to pesticides while pregnant had increased blood pressure and diminished ability to copy geometric figures as compared to a control group.   view more (2006-03-07)

Family study bolsters link between pesticides and Parkinson's
For the first time, the association between Parkinson's disease and exposure to pesticides has been shown in patients with the neurological disorder compared with their unaffected relatives, according to a study in the online open access journal BMC Neurology.   view more (2008-03-28)

Pesticides disrupt farmland bird food chains
Preliminary results are emerging from important new work on the indirect effects of agricultural pesticides on farmland birds in Britain. At the British Ecological Society`s Winter Meeting, at the University of Warwick on 18–20 December 2001, Tony Morris of the Royal Society for the... view more (2001-12-17)

Women with breast cancer five times as likely to have pesticide (DDT) residues in their blood
Women with breast cancer are five times as likely to have pesticide residues in their blood of organochlorines (DDT), which contain oestrogens, reveals a study of 159 women in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The possibility of such a link has attracted controversy, admit the authors, but... view more (2003-04-23)

Research documents children's exposure to pesticides, suggests need for family education
Two studies of immigrant farmworker families in North Carolina and Virginia found evidence of pesticide exposure in young children, and prompted researchers to call for pesticide safety training for workers' spouses.   view more (2006-07-18)

Tackling suicide rates in the developing world
Differing patterns in suicides rates worldwide are highlighted in the December issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE), edited in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, and published today.   view more (2003-12-19)

New discovery: if it weren't for this enzyme, decomposing pesticide would take millennia
An enzyme inside a bacterium that grows in the soil of potato fields can - in a split second - break down residues of a common powerful pesticide used for killing worms on potatoes, researchers have found.   view more (2005-10-25)

Natural pesticide impairs bumble bee foraging ability
Pesticide levels previously thought to be safe for pollinators may prove harmful to wild bee health, according to research published in Pest Management Science this month.   view more (2005-05-06)

Long-term pesticide exposure may increase risk of diabetes
Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).   view more (2008-06-05)

Common pesticide may reduce fertility in women
Methoxychlor (MXC), a common insect pesticide used on food crops, may interfere with proper development and function of the reproductive tract, leading to reduced fertility in women, researchers at Yale School of Medicine write in the August issue of Endocrinology.   view more (2005-09-13)

Pesticides Persist in Ground Water
Numerous studies over the past four decades have established that pesticides, which are typically applied at the land surface, can move downward through the unsaturated zone to reach the water table at detectable concentrations.   view more (2008-07-02)

Making an impact with pesticide assessments
With over two million tons of pesticides used annually worldwide, from 900 active ingredients, the human health and environmental risks are high. Making data from so many products used in so many environments more widely available online is helping risk assessors work out what action to take.   view more (2005-03-15)

In some cases, genetic resistance takes on a life of its own
For those concerned with the troublesome effects of genetic resistance to drugs and pesticides, the conventional wisdom of evolution offers a reassuring word.   view more (2005-08-09)

Mayo researcher discovers target site for developing mosquito pesticides
A Mayo Clinic researcher has discovered a target site within malaria-carrying mosquitoes that could be used to develop pesticides that are toxic to the Anopheles gambiae mosquito and other mosquito species.   view more (2006-12-21)

Mayo researcher discovers target site for developing mosquito pesticides
A Mayo Clinic researcher has discovered a target site within malaria-carrying mosquitoes that could be used to develop pesticides that are toxic to the Anopheles gambiae mosquito and other mosquito species.   view more (2006-12-21)

Study concludes that pesticide use increases risk of Parkinson's in men
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that using pesticides for farming or other purposes increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease for men.   view more (2006-06-15)

Handling pesticides associated with greater asthma risk in farm women
New research on farm women has shown that contact with some commonly used pesticides in farm work may increase their risk of allergic asthma.   view more (2007-12-28)

Research team discovers hormone that causes malaria mosquito to urinate
Prior to coming to Nevada 16 years ago, David Schooley was a key figure at a small company in Palo Alto, Calif. that developed methoprene, an insecticide that halts the maturation of insect larvae to adults.   view more (2005-08-25)

Tiny zebras at your service
Before new pesticides can be approved, their environmental impact must be assessed. Due to the complexity of ecological systems, researchers require simple yet representative laboratory models. Among vertebrates, schools of zebra fish are especially suitable. --- Studying the ways substances affect... view more (2004-02-03)

Alternative methods proposed to detect pesticides and antibiotics in water and natural food
Water or food of natural origins (from plants or animals) that we consume on a daily basis can contain unwanted 'supplies' for our organism, such as pesticides or antibiotics.   view more (2007-09-19)

Alternatives to ozone-depleting pesticide studied
Methyl bromide, an odorless, colorless gas used as an agricultural pesticide, was introduced in the 1980s as an effective way to control weeds and increase fruit yields.   view more (2008-05-08)
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