For the first time, a fluorescent-guided nerve imaging agent shows promise for use in humans, according to a paper published ...

How do nerve agents work? The truth behind 'some of the most dangerous things that humans have ever made' The complex poisons force the body to shut down in swift and intense ways ...

It was patented by Ranajit Ghosh and J.F. Newman in 1952 but once it was discovered how lethal to humans VX was all, commercial research on the agent stopped. The nerve agent is a class of ...

When it first enters your nervous system after you ingest it, inhale it or absorb it through your skin, the silent but very deadly nerve agent Novichok will first cause a constriction of the pupil … ...

Autopsies on three Syrians who died after being brought to Turkey for treatment suggest that the banned nerve agent sarin was used in the April 4, suspected chemical weapons attack, the Turkish ...

The military-grade nerve agent that investigators believe was used to poison a former Russian spy and his adult daughter was identified as Novichok, a hard-to-detect Soviet-engineered killer that ...

In contrast, nerve agents target human cholinesterases. By disrupting the nervous system, Novichok and other nerve agents can kill people through asphyxiation or cardiac arrest.

Either way, nerve agents are horrendously lethal and chemical warfare is an obscene use of chemicals. This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the original article .

Experts Suspect Nerve Agent Was Used In Syrian Attack : ... More than 70 people were killed in a bombing in Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

LONDON-- The use of Russian-developed chemical nerve agent Novichok to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter makes it "highly likely" that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister ...

Organophosphorus (OP) nerve agents are potent suicide inhibitors of the essential neurotransmitter-regulating enzyme acetylcholinesterase. Due to their acute toxicity, there is significant interest in ...