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 ...

The nerve agent will begin to disable the body’s “off switch for glands and muscles” and disrupt the transmission of nerve impulses.

VX gas is a terrifying nerve agent developed specifically to be used in chemical warfare. Here’s everything you need to know about the “extremely toxic” compound which was alleged… ...

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 ...

NOVICHOK is a deadly nerve agent that is so powerful that just a pinprick can kill in minutes. The odourless and clear toxin was developed in Russia and has made the headlines again after German o… ...

OP pesticides are much less toxic to humans than nerve agents because they have been designed to specifically inhibit insect cholinesterases. In contrast, nerve agents target human cholinesterases.

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 ...

By some estimates, the human nose can detect up to a trillion different smells with its hundreds of scent receptors. But even just catching a quick whiff of certain chemicals known as nerve agents ...

UC Davis researchers are developing ways to prevent long-term brain damage in humans when poisoned by organophosphate chemical nerve agents or pesticides.