Trick or Treat? or Tricks and Threats? Halloween is not for the faint of heart (or guts). One of the more prevalent myths associated with the festival with its Irish roots is that of the “Poisoned ...

A man seeking a healthier diet consulted ChatGPT for a salt alternative and was advised to use sodium bromide. After three months, he landed in the emergency department with severe psychiatric ...

A 60-year-old man was hospitalized for bromide poisoning The man asked ChatGPT for alternatives to salt Bromide toxicity was far more common in the 20th century A 60-year-old man was hospitalized for ...

Ethidium bromide (EB) is an intercalating inhibitor of topoisomerase II and its activities are related to chemotherapeutic drugs used in anti-cancer treatments. EB promotes several genotoxic effects ...

Physical Sciences Division, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (An Autonomous Institute Under DST, Govt. of India), Vigyan Path, Paschim Boragaon, Garchuk, Guwahati, Assam 781035, ...

Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa ...

Nucleic acid extraction is the first step in the NGS sample prep protocol. Nucleic acids are large biomolecules that are essential to all known forms of life. They are composed of nucleotides, which ...

Ethidium bromide is a frameshift mutagen (causes changes to DNA) and intercalating agent (acts like insertion mutations). Although evidence shows that when applied in vitro it is a mutagen, contact ...

Visualization of double stranded DNA in gels with the binding of the fluorescent dye ethidium bromide has been a basic experimental technique in any molecular biology laboratory for >40 years. The ...