Change often involves a pivotal event that builds on previous history and opens the door to a new era. Pivotal events in science include the discovery of penicillin, the elucidation of the DNA double ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests ...

Since some of our everyday products like cosmetics or pharmaceuticals are toxic to aquatic animals, when they get washed into the water system, they can pose a serious threat to wildlife. Those toxins ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced it plans to phase out animal testing in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs and biological products “with ...

CAMDEN — A Rutgers–Camden professor is developing a comprehensive data system that can be used as a valuable computational tool for researchers by providing them with access to chemical toxicity ...

New Rochelle, NY, June 13, 2018--Integrated approaches that avoid the use of animals to assess the toxicity of inhaled materials may include a computational model to screen for chemical reactivity, a ...

Sixteen federal agencies partnered to develop a strategic roadmap that offers a new framework for the safety testing of drugs and chemicals, which aims to provide more human relevant toxicology data ...

The use of animals to test the toxicity of chemicals may one day become outdated thanks to a low-cost, high-speed algorithm. The use of animals to test the toxicity of chemicals may one day become ...

Daniel Krewski (Chair) is professor of medicine and of epidemiology and community medicine and director of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment at the University of Ottawa.

Assessing nanotoxicity helps ensure the safe use of nanomaterials while protecting human health and the environment. Nanomaterials can enter the body through inhalation, ingestion, or injection. Once ...

Before a new drug hits the market, it must undergo years of rigorous preclinical testing and multiple phases of human trials, often involving hundreds or even thousands of patients. This highly ...