To prove that fish ingestion of microplastics is more than just an ocean story and more than just a modern story, Loren Hou used an unusual technique. Transporting the digestive tracts of four ...

There are some pretty strange ingredients in cosmetics and skin care products. One example is snail mucin—also known as snail slime—which is used for its moisturizing and antioxidant properties. But ...

When most people clean a fish, they throw away the guts, but a team of biologists would rather take a close look at them. To understand the roles of the many microbes that live naturally within ...

When undergraduate researcher Mitchell Davis began blending fish guts for a study at Brigham Young University, Idaho, he didn't expect to uncover something disturbing lurking in the local waterways.

In a presentation at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society, researchers discuss the possibility of using fish guts as an alternative to plastic. Fish guts, you ask? Well, fish guts, and ...