The bacteria worked to break down toxic molecules into safe and simple carbon groups-food for less exotic microbes serving as natural decomposers within the soil.

Modern manufacturing standards for lindane involve the treatment and conversion of waste isomers to less toxic molecules, a process known as "cracking."

This apparatus possesses the ability to detect minute concentrations of toxic and environmentally hazardous molecules.

The cell membrane is considered a significant barrier to transportation of the toxic molecules of cisplatin across and inside the tumor cell.

For billions of years, tiny organisms have engaged in an arms race, hurling toxic molecules at each other in the struggle to prosper.

In 2011 studies of Legionella pneumophila, Charpentier et al. tested 64 toxic molecules to determine which ones induce competence.

TCDD has been described as "perhaps the most toxic molecule ever synthesized by man".

Kicking apart toxic "nonbiodegradable" molecules was a physical thrill.

Other less toxic molecules probably do the same thing, he said.

Vitamin E was tested because it traps free radicals, toxic molecules that are thought to contribute to the nerve cell death in Parkinson's disease.