Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed hardware and software that turns the iPhone into a powerful biosensor that's useful for toxin and pathogen testing as well as medical diagnosis.

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An excellent example is corn crafted by introducing into commercial corn varieties a gene (or genes) encoding a natural toxin(s) from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis.

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In one experiment Walsh and his team injected mice with a toxin, called MPTP, that induces Parkinson's disease by killing off dopaminergic neurons.

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Dr Chapman's plan was to use this mechanism to get macrophages to eat toxin molecules.

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Here's a brief science lesson: Botox is a brand name for botulinum toxin type a.

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That famous toxin known as conventional wisdom has built the Republican Party's problems into a nightmare from beyond the grave, and in that context creating a party spokesman may seem an inadequate response.

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Larger fish that eat smaller fish can have concentrations of toxin a thousand times higher than the levels found in the river's sediment.

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It's only fitting that the company that produces Botox, the most popular form of botulinum toxin, purchased one of the top breast implant manufacturers back in 2005.

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Giery said the hospital's diagnosis at the time of death was that his illness was caused by food poisoning from ciguatera, a toxin sometimes found in large saltwater fish including grouper, red snapper and sea bass.

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