It wasn’t until the 17th century that Italian doctor Francesco Redi (1626-1697) conclusively located the poison as being in the yellow liquid from glands attached to the two front teeth of ...

IN the early days of modern science much pioneer work had to be done in clearing away all manner of crude notions and legends, partly based on ideas and faulty explanations of facts or fables ...

The Award is named after its founder the Italian polymath Francesco Redi, whose researches he conducted in 1664 are regarded as the milestone in the beginning of toxinology research. Redi was the ...