Nyhetsarkiv for Institutt for biovitenskap (BIO)

Christine holding up a print of a cod head

Master thesis on the effects of bisphenol compounds on Atlantic cod estrogen receptor (18.12.2019)

In her master thesis, Christine Tveiten Johansen, has studied how bisphenol compounds activate or inhibit estrogen receptor in Atlantic cod. She shows disturbing results of the substitute compounds can be more harmful that the known plastic additive bisphenol A.