imOmics in Action

This paper studies the role of silicon in the inhibition of cadmium toxicity in marine diatoms. It is shown that silicon enrichment enhances cadmium tolerance and alters cadmium accumulation in marine diatoms. This indicates that silicon plays an important role in carrying metal homeostasis and in combating cadmium challenge in marine diatoms. Jie ...

Cadmium is known to pose severe risks to human health and thus is often studied by scientists. In some instances, researchers aim to decrease cadmium accumulation or improve the crops' ability to resist cadmium. Other researchers choose to study plants that can absorb cadmium in large quantities. These plants are studied for phytoremediation of cad...

This video features a newly discovered application for NMT: cadmium screening in celery! Heavy metals like cadmium can pollute the soil and accumulate in crops, leading to health problems in consumers. In 2018, Xu Rui-shen et al. successfully used NMT to screen for cadmium accumulation in celery roots, helping to determine which varieties took up t...