Silver gone astray: What concentration of silver ions disrupts biological processes in aquatic life?
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 06:34
in Biology & Nature
It has long been known that, in the form of free ions, silver particles can be highly toxic to aquatic organisms. Yet to this day, there is a lack of detailed knowledge about the doses required to trigger a response and how the organisms deal with this kind of stress. To learn more about the cellular processes that occur in the cells, scientists subjected algae to a range of silver concentrations.