WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asbestos was once called a miracle material because of its toughness and fire-resistant properties. It was used as insulation, incorporated into cement and even woven into ...

With the nasty tendency of its airborne fibers to cause lung cancer, the installation of asbestos building insulation has been banned in many countries for some time now. A lot of buildings still have ...

I receive a lot of questions from home buyers about asbestos. Will we identify the presence of asbestos? Can we test for asbestos? Does this or that material contain asbestos? And so on. During one of ...

For decades, a laboratory procedure known as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to test for asbestos in samples taken at construction sites. In 1989, the U.S. Environmental ...

The health risks caused by damaged asbestos are so high that it has a disease, asbestosis, named after it. Asbestosis is a type of pulmonary fibrosis, where high levels of exposure to asbestos fibers ...

Create an evidence base for the use of biotechnology in asbestos testing Develop a protein within a bacterial protein library that can be used to bind asbestos Asbestos is a toxic substance that is ...

In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned the most common form of asbestos, a cancer-causing substance associated with tens of thousands of deaths in the country every year. The ban ...

For much of the 19th and 20th century, the mining and use of asbestos saw near-constant growth, with virtually every material used in the construction of homes, offices, ships, road networks and ...