In the late 1990s, Paul Alan Cox, Ph.D., an ethnobotanist currently at the Institute for EthnoMedicine in Jackson Hole, Wyo. and colleagues, began traveling to the Pacific island of Guam to interview ...
A group of villagers on the Pacific island of Guam has offered some key insight into the role that an environmental toxin may play in brain changes that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. And ...
STUART, Fla. — After years of research, scientists and doctors out of the University of Miami say high levels of a neurotoxin, BMAA, has been found in deceased dolphins off the coast of Florida that ...
A “toxic puzzle” is what first led ethnobotanist Dr. Paul Alan Cox to Guam, where the researcher spoke with the indigenous Chamorro people of two different villages about a paralytic disease that was ...
In a startling discovery, researchers have identified a chronic neurotoxin known as BMAA in dust particles from the Great Salt Lake's dried lakebed. This toxin, linked to neurodegenerative illnesses, ...
ASU researchers analyzed 258 scientific papers and found evidence linking the toxin BMAA and ALS Researchers say there's enough scientific evidence to conclude BMAA can cause Lou Gehrig's disease ALS ...
Rachael Dunlop is an inventor on a patent pending for L-serine as a treatment for neurodegenerative disease. She receives funding from The Institute for Ethnomedicine, Jackson, WY. A paper published ...
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