A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report provides an overview of new approach methods in human health risk assessment of chemicals, and calls on the U.S. Environmental ...

Extensions to Thermo Scientific Cellomics Platform Address Comet and Zebrafish Applications Assessing the toxicity of a sample for its risk to human health is key throughout the life sciences. This ...

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 ...

To test whether chemicals are toxic to humans, researchers need to use liver cells that have been freshly harvested from mice or other mammals. A new collection of stable cell lines, described in BMC ...

The use of animals to test the toxicity of chemicals may one day become outdated thanks to a low-cost, high-speed algorithm.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

Federal agencies with the job of protecting human health have long relied on toxicity tests on laboratory animals to help them decide whether to regulate chemicals. These experiments are expensive and ...

Representatives from four international agencies, including the director of the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), today signed a memorandum of cooperation that could reduce the number of animals ...