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Food additives in nano size affect nutrient uptake – midget particles lead to midget worms

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Friday, 25 October 2019 / Published in Press
Researchers from the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf showed that particular nanoparticles affect nutrient uptake in the roundworm. The study was published in “Nanotoxicology”. Düsseldorf, 25.10.2019. Nanoparticles from silicon dioxide (silica; SiO2) are added to food products for example as anticaking agent. Recent research results from the model organism Caenorhabditis

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Postfach 10 30 45
40021 Düsseldorf
Telefon: +49- (0)211-3389-0
Telefax: +49- (0)211-3190910

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