Plants can be toxic, known to many people who experience contact dermatitis from the "poison" plants (e.g., poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac); however, one person's poison may be another ...

Wildfires can irritate our sinuses, skin and eyes. Here's how to care for each when it's smoky out from wind and wildfires.

The world faces an extinction crisis, but that hasn’t stopped conservation efforts. Here are some animals who made a ...

The most common causes of ACD are the plants of the Rhus genus, poison ivy (toxicodendron radican), poison oak (toxicodendron ... with Langerhan's cells in the skin (Graham-Brown & Bourke, 1998).

Toxins on poison dart frog skin mold the skin's microbial community, boosting species variety and potentially even feeding some daredevil bacteria.

DENVER (KDVR) — A poison pellet that appears to have been legally dispensed was eaten by a dog while walking through the Tapestry Hills neighborhood, leading to an investigation. According to ...

stretchy skin -- like that of a pig or human -- significantly lessens the underlying damage that occurs when it's punctured. Pig skin even outperforms synthetic materials that are designed ...

The skin is by far the body’s biggest organ. Depending on your height and body mass, it covers an area of around 1.5 to 2 square metres and weighs between 3.5 and 10 kilograms – around 15 per ...