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This study examined hair mineral and free amino acid components in various diseases and found that when using effect size analysis, specific components related to diabetes and other conditions were identified, suggesting their potential as novel health indicators.

This study found that microplastics on the Lebanese Mediterranean coast transport various organic and inorganic pollutants, posing threats to marine organisms and potentially human health.

This study developed a new analytical method to identify a wide range of endocrine disrupting compounds in full-term amniotic fluid, revealing diverse substances with potential endocrine activity.

This study found that finasteride and melengestrol acetate exhibit varying levels of toxicity to freshwater mussels, amphipods, and mayflies, but current environmental concentrations suggest minimal direct effects on these aquatic invertebrates.

This study found high levels of toxic heavy metals in water sources of mining communities in Abakaliki, Nigeria, posing potential health risks including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

The congress highlighted new gene therapy techniques and cell transplantation methods for treating diseases.

This review details the causes, symptoms, and treatments for dandruff, emphasizing herbal ingredients with anti-dandruff properties used in shampoos and exploring their antifungal and anti-inflammatory mechanisms. It highlights dandruff's exploitation by personal care companies due to the lack of medical interventions.

This systematic review concludes that exosomes may offer significant therapeutic potential for treating androgenetic alopecia, with observed improvements in hair density and follicular health, but further long-term clinical studies are necessary for validation.

This article discusses thallium absorption, excretion, and its toxic effects on humans and animals, emphasizing the need for monitoring in areas with significant environmental contamination; no new clinical results are reported.

Methylmercury accumulates in mouse hair during growth, then decreases when growth stops.

This study observed very high thallium levels in small mammals near a zinc smelter in Poland, accompanied by severe population and health impacts.

Radioiodine-131 significantly accumulates in skin and hair.

In this study, researchers found that arsenic transfer to induced hair in rats increased sharply at first and then more gradually, correlating significantly with arsenic levels in key organs.

This case study describes a 29-year-old woman whose severe liver injury was primarily attributed to chronic arsenic exposure, highlighting the importance of recognizing metal toxicity in patient care.

This study found that all five toxic microelements analyzed were most prevalent in the Caspian thin-fingered gecko's bone and muscle tissues, suggesting their tolerance to these elements in polluted areas.

This study presents a method using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to quantify biotin in plasma and serum, and explores how high biotin intake can interfere with diagnostic immunoassays that utilize biotin-streptavidin technology, potentially leading to misdiagnosis of endocrine disorders.

This source highlights that arsenic exposure through contaminated groundwater is a significant global health risk, leading to skin and hair conditions such as pigmentation changes, skin irritation, alopecia, and can eventually result in skin cancer.

These investigations described in the study demonstrate how geochemical techniques can be applied to biological studies in Yellowstone, finding significant mercury accumulation in trout and grizzly bears which correlates with hydrothermal sources.

This study analyzed soil, water, and carrot samples in Vietnam, and found that organic farming can reduce heavy metal levels in carrots compared to conventional methods, potentially improving their nutritional safety.

This study observed that tributyltin pollution induces imposex, reduces reproductive success, and leads to population decline in Ocinebrina aciculata, highlighting its sensitivity compared to other prosobranch species.

This study found that laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry can effectively reconstruct time-resolved mercury exposure in micrometer segments of a single hair strand from fish-eaters.

In this study, mice orally exposed to carbon-based nanoparticles for 30 days showed significant liver and kidney changes, behavioral alterations, and physiological disturbances, suggesting potential severe health risks due to the nanoparticles' slow clearance and formation of reactive oxygen species.

In this study, nitrogen starvation in Chlorella sp. FC2 IITG led to increased lipid accumulation by altering the expression of enzymes involved in various metabolic pathways, suggesting potential for genetic engineering of microalgae.

In this study, human scalp hair grafted onto nude mice accurately reflected methyl mercury exposure, demonstrating its potential as a research model for monitoring mercury incorporation into human hair.

This review highlights the importance of selecting high-quality bioassays in discovering bioactive compounds from marine sources, emphasizing their role in evaluating safety and efficacy during pharmaceutical, food supplement, and cosmetic development.

This study developed a model predicting uranium excretion in human hair from drinking water exposure, suggesting it is a viable indicator for assessing internal uranium burden.

This case report presents a patient with diabetes mellitus thought to be secondary to chronic arsenic exposure, highlighting the potential need to evaluate heavy metal toxicity in similar cases.

This study introduces MicrobeFDT, a tool that clusters chemically similar compounds and links them to gut microbial enzymes and toxicities, demonstrating its utility by uncovering previously unknown metabolism of the cancer drug altretamine.

This case report highlights that a woman experienced arsenic toxicosis from kelp supplements, manifesting as alopecia and memory loss, which resolved after stopping the supplements.

This article reports a case of rhabdomyolysis in a patient two hours after consuming the freshwater fish Mylossoma duriventre, suggesting a possible link to Haff disease from an unidentified toxin.