toxin

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The insurer has come under heavy criticism from fire victims over its handling of claims, including complaints of low payout offers, denials for toxin testing and delays in payments for living expenses.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

Mice that could not properly process ammonia accumulated higher levels of the toxin.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

Experts have said the toxin can also be produced synthetically, instead of extracting it directly from the frog itself.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was almost certainly killed by a poison derived from a rare frog toxin in an Arctic prison colony two years ago, several European governments said Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

The toxins of diphtheria bacilli and streptococci are produced when the organisms have been infected by bacteriophage; it is the virus that provides the code for toxin.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas