Arsenic in the News
Links to the group in the news.
Our group in the news:
- Our arsenic sensor in the news
- Drinksafe - the vision for arsenic sensing
- Arsenic mobilisation in West Bengal - interview with Dr Thomas Osborne
- Arsenic Bioremediation - interview with Dr Joanne Santini
- Yellowknife toxic arsenic legacy - CBC Nov 2016
UK
- BBC radio programme on arsenic 2016
- Cows in Lancashire die of arsenic poisoning
- Arsenic found in counterfeit cosmetics
European News
Germany
Greece
Italy
Croatia & Serbia
North American News
Canada
- Giant Mine cleanup continues
- Is arsenic contamination of Yellowknife a permanent problem?
- More on arsenic contamination in Yellowknife lakes
- Lentils to prevent arsenic poisoning
- Arsenic in Yellowknife lake sediments
- Arsenic waste leaked from container at Giant Mine
- Cleanup plan for Yellowknife’s Con Mine under scrutiny
- Yellowknife arsenic cleanup costs soar
- More on Yellowknife
- More on Giant Mine cleanup
- Update on Yellowknife clean up Oct 2013
- Arsenic claims among Giant Mine workers
- http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21620280-canadas-taxpayers-ante-up-billions-clean-up-mistakes-past-giant-headache
- 26 more Giant Mine workers show elevated levels of arsenic
USA
- 2.1 million exposed to arsenic in their well water
- Study claims nearly 56,000 Californians exposed to arsenic in their drinking water
- Let them drink arsenic - dangerously high levels of arsenic in Texas drinking water
- Toxic legacy: 1872 law lets miners profit on the backs of US taxpayers
- Arsenic in disappearing California groundwater
- Scientists find “alarming” amounts of arsenic in groundwater near Texas fracking sites
- Fracking leads to increase in arsenic pollution
- Also see Scientific American article
- U.S. Geological Survey scientists based in California have discovered bacteria that photosynthesise using compounds of arsenic, rather than water, have been discovered in the warm, bubbling pools of Mono Lake in California.
The original study:
T.R. Kulp, S.E. Hoeft, M. Asao, M.T. Madigan, J.T. Hollibaugh, J.C. Fisher, J.F. Stolz, C.W. Culbertson, L.G. Miller, R.S. Oremland, Arsenic(III) Fuels Anoxygenic Photosynthesis in Hot Spring Biofilms from Mono Lake, California, Science, 321 (2008) 967-970. click here
South American News
Chile
Asia
Bangladesh
- Arsenic in Bangladesh: how to protect 20 million people - Guardian story
- Arsenic threat to Dhaka water supply
- Arsenic contamination in Kushtia
- Millions in Bangladesh are still drinking arsenic-contaminated water
Cambodia
China
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Thailand
Australia
- Potentially toxic dust from mine tailings in Stawell, Victoria
- Solomon Islands tailings dam disaster - thousands potentially exposed to arsenic and other toxins
Arsenic sinks to new depths: Recent article in Nature describing the magnitude of arsenic contamination in groundwater and its effects.
News
Our work on Lak2 megaphage out now in iScience.
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New paper on structure and function of periplasmic arsenate-binding protein ArrX in Biochemistry.
Arsenite-oxidising bacterium NT-26 is officially named Pseudorhizobium banfieldiae in new phylogenomics paper.
Two comment papers with Sarah Edwards, published in The Lancet Microbe, on host range of SARS-CoV-2 and anthroponotic risk of transmission urge for more research on animals as a potential reservoir of SARS-CoV-2.
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Contact Us
Joanne Santini PhD (Professor of Microbiology)
Structural & Molecular Biology
Division of Biosciences
University College London
Darwin Building, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Email: j.santini@ucl.ac.uk