Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...

Scientists have discovered that mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to avoid being eaten by them when the deed is ...

"It's all hands on deck." Domoic acid is a neurotoxin released by Pseudo-nitzschia, a common phytoplankton species found in ...

While unfortunate for the males, becoming a post-sex meal offers the females vital nutrients needed to sustain themselves and ...

However, it was not yet clear how this neurotoxin acted or which brain cells were most affected," explains Dr. Marília Zaluar, a neuroscientist at IDOR and one of the study's coordinators.

The clostridial neurotoxin family is composed of tetanus neurotoxin and seven serotypes of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT/A–BoNT/G). Botulinum neurotoxin serotype A is synthesized in Clostridium ...

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The MMA personality and podcast mogul also suggested that fluoride is a neurotoxin that adversely affects the IQ (Intelligence Quotient) of the people whose systems it enters. According to the ...

For example, it might fill the room with deadly neurotoxin, giving you just seconds to solve it. Or it might transform the chamber floor into a roiling lava pit that you have to cross by hopping ...