Comet assay news
Vitamin D & DNA damage - is there a connection?
- Created: Wednesday, 25 January 2017 08:48
Recently, a global team of experts (from The University of Oslo, Norway, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & The Chinese University of Hong Kong) have been investigating “Vitamin D and oxidation-induced DNA damage: is there a connection?”
Novel high throughput method for comet slide processing
- Created: Tuesday, 13 December 2016 11:30
Researchers from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Florida International University have published a scientific report in Scientific Reports which details a novel method for the high-throughput processing of slides for the comet assay.
Burning logs and the comet assay
- Created: Wednesday, 09 November 2016 15:44
Scientists from University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio were inspired by statistics from the World Health Organization to investigate particulate emissions from the combustion of birch, beech, and spruce logs.
Genotoxic properties of two synthetic cathinones (commonly used as psychoactive drugs).
- Created: Thursday, 06 October 2016 14:02
According to the literature, synthetic cathinones are consumed worldwide as psychostimulants and are increasingly marketed as surrogates of classical illicit drugs via the internet. Alarmingly, it is reported that the genotoxic properties are unknown.
Genotoxicological survey of the Adige river basin
- Created: Thursday, 25 August 2016 10:28
Scientists working in collaboration from the University of Belgrade, University of Kragujevac, University of Trento, and the Catalan Institute for Water Research, have conducted a genotoxicological survey at seven sites within the Adige river basin.