Over the last year, Florida has experienced a double whammy of algae blooms -- one offshore and one closer to home. A red tide -- a choking cluster of toxic algae -- floating off Florida's southwest ...

Samples collected from bottlenose dolphins that recently died in North Florida suggest red tide may have killed them, ...

In developing evidence for a 20-year-old hypothesis about a toxin found in red tide, MIT chemists have worked out techniques that could also streamline the production of certain drugs. MIT chemists ...

If you’re planning to vacation in Florida, it better be on the East coast. Because along the Gulf there’s an enormous red tide, which contains a potent neurotoxin that’s killed millions of fish, while ...

Suspected cause: Preliminary tests suggest brevetoxin from red tide is behind the deaths of 25 bottlenose dolphins along Florida’s Panhandle. Other causes ruled out: Tests for bacterial and viral ...

The Roskamp Institute has received a peer-reviewed federal grant of more than $400,000 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to advance its work to study the potential ...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Can toxic algae from red tide hurt your brain? A Sarasota-based scientific organization, the Roskamp Institute, is studying how the algal blooms may cause neurological ...

A drug for treating high cholesterol might someday find use relieving the debilitating symptoms of poisoning from some algal toxins, animal data suggest. Algal toxins accumulate in fish and shellfish, ...

SARASOTA — A new study into the neurological effects of red tide on humans could lead to a simple test to determine if an illness is caused by the deadly algae’s brevetoxins. A significant red tide ...