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The toxin in litchi kills more than 100 Indian children each year
American and Indian scientists discovered a mysterious disease that kills more than 100 children every year in northern India by eating fabrics when hungry causes.
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The danger of Clostridium botulinum bacteria
Clostridium botulinum (C. botulinum) was first described by E.van Ermengem in 1897 during a food poisoning in Ellezelles, Belgium.
Biology
The world's most exclusive tree species
Available in the Caribbean and Bahamas of the United States, the Manchineel tree is named
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Discover the rolling mat in your garden
Many rolling species possess secondary defense measures that secrete certain toxins or hydrogen cyanide gas, which can burn skin and eyes ...
Biology
9 mechanisms of plant protection
In the plant world, adaptive and self-defense mechanisms have created many rich plant species. Although they must always be tied to the soil, they cannot move but they a…
Biology
10 most dangerous poisonous mushrooms in the world
If eating some poisonous fungi such as mushroom angel wings or skull cap, people will suffer liver, kidney, nervous system damage, leading to death.
Biology
Mustard can limit the destruction of chemical weapons
Tests show that mustard plants grown in soil are contaminated by VX neurotoxin, absorbing this toxin through the roots and retaining it for at least 45 days.
Biology
Scary plants
Giant parsley, mulberry or yew trees are plants with toxins and strange properties that can frighten people if they accidentally come into contact with them.
Biology
Discover algae fraud
They hunt, eat, cheat: unicellular algae shed light on the social life of microorganisms.
Biology
The most terrifying lethal poison
Smelling remote smoke poisoned, dilated pupils, lethargy are fatal symptoms of poisonous plants such as oleander, castor, poisonous water ... caused to victims.
Biology
The killer tree is also afraid of poison
The carnivorous plants swallow all the insects they catch, but their existence can be threatened if the prey has toxins in the body.
Biology
Tobacco is completely free of nicotine
Scientists at Kyoto University (Japan) have made a breakthrough in the way of creating tobacco that does not contain nicotine toxins.
Biology
Cell sacrifices for the common good
During dividing cells there is a random molecular process that allows some cells to self-destruct for the common good, thereby improving the condition of the surviving c…
Biology
Color of insects with anti-cancer drugs and tropical diseases
According to researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the beetle-colored beetles or butterfly-colored larvae may signal chemical compounds t…
Biology
Detecting new toxins of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract
Scientists have discovered a new toxin called 'colibactine' produced by Escherichia coli (E. coli), which breaks the DNA chain and disrupts the cycle of antibacterial ce…