Newly developed ompounds aim to reveal the dual nature of formaldehyde, a chemical that is known to cause cancer but is also believed to play important roles in our biology. Compounds developed by ...

The Food and Drug Administration plans to recommend a ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products after years of research suggests the chemical may cause hormone-related cancers, like breast, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women getting keratin treatment. As research on the harmful effects of formaldehyde abounds, the FDA is taking serious strides to ...

Formaldehyde's toxicity was presumed to derive from its ability to crosslink DNA, but that happens only at huge doses. Recent discoveries that formaldehyde is found in the body in small amounts led a ...

Learn how you can identify formaldehyde in hair-smoothing products. March 1, 2012 — -- Five months ago, the federal government put out a hazard alert about the hair-smoothing treatment, Brazilian ...

A battle over the health risks of formaldehyde—a chemical that is nearly everywhere—is raging again. The latest showdown is over the US Environmental Protection Agency’s draft evaluation, released ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to meet their own deadline in April to issue a proposed ban on the use of formaldehyde, a chemical often used by Black women in their hair relaxer ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. The chemical industry finally got its wish. Politics: Kyle Rittenhouse Is Back On Social Media With A Strange Wedding Picture Industry lobbyists have ...

Aojin Chemical's urea-formaldehyde resin is being shipped! Today was another busy day, with Aojin Chemical's urea-formaldehyde resin being loaded into containers and shipped!Dear customers, please be ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks researcher Kimberly Bertrand about hair relaxers containing formaldehyde and moves by the FDA to ban them. People use hair relaxers for many reasons - for day-to-day ...

In the body, the small molecule formaldehyde (upper left in box) inhibits an enzyme (violet) that makes methyl groups (red) that are added to DNA. This interferes with methylation, an important ...