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By Ryan Schacht, University of Utah and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, University of California, Davis

By Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology at University of Adelaide.

A paper has just been released that will raise health concerns about Bisphenol A again. The paper, “Low-dose exposure to bisphenol A and replacement bisphenol S induces precocious hypothalamic neurogenesis in embryonic zebrafish” was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This is a very interesting paper, but in terms of implications for human health everything hinges on what “low dose” means.


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By Justin O'Brien, Royal Holloway


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By Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University


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By Monica Grady, The Open University