Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and collaborators, have published a ...

Microscopic view of domoic acid producing Pseudo-nitzschia diatom in a seawater sample from Monterey Bay, California. This diatom species, when ...

Shellfish are growing in popularity, but they’re not always the best for our health, especially as biotoxins are becoming ...

Steffaney Wood is a fifth-year PhD student researching marine chemical biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC ...

The lab tests for toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning, amnesic shellfish poisoning and diarrhetic shellfish poisoning. When an area is declared safe, harvest can be allowed — so long as it ...