A new study finds the bulk of PFAS entering and exiting wastewater treatment plants is made up of fluorinated drugs.

Municipal wastewater treatment plants remove less than 25% of extractable organofluorine, with fluorinated pharmaceuticals ...

For the sake of our climate, America must aspire toward net-zero in forever chemicals, not the absurd, vapid illusion of ...

Wastewater plants are failing to remove a group of potentially toxic chemicals before pumping treated water into rivers and ...

New research finds toxins used to make some brands of smart watch wrist straps are able to seep through the skin ...

“We actually saw a full-page ad in a magazine that promoted ‘fluoroelastomer’ watch bands, and my research group was surprised to see anybody advertising PFAS in a product,” Graham ...

Efforts to create ‘mirror life’ – life whose building blocks have the opposite handedness to life on Earth – should be halted, an international group of experts has recommended. The group warns that ...

Now, a team has found a molecule that could provide caloric restriction in a pill ― at least for flies and worms. There is no evidence yet that taking lithocholic acid would have the same effect ...

Lenacapavir is one of the 107 of 360 fluorine-containing small-molecule drugs that fit the ... of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the drug could be classified as a member of the ...

PFAS—which stands for "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances"—are a category of chemicals used in a wide range of products. In high concentrations, PFAS may have harmful health effects on people ...

Ample wastewater supplies from sewage treatment plants often contain forever chemicals — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, — as well as other chemical pollutants and harmful microorganisms ...