Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

Read a statement from 30 scientists, doctors and public-health experts from Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers and other universities about the "overwhelming evidence for the toxic effects of lead in humans ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment ...

in Virginia 1786 – Ben Franklin deplores that nothing has been done to protect people from the "mischievous effect" of lead poisoning 1842 – Lead poisoning first identified as a disease in wild birds ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Unlike their predecessors—mAbs of animal origin, or humanized or synthetic mAbs—YUMAB’s fully human mAbs maximize epitope diversity while minimizing immunogenicity and thus adverse effects.

The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, suggest humans began polluting the environment with lead more than 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.