A study led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that advanced algorithms working from large chemical databases can predict a new chemical's toxicity better than ...

Overcoming acquired treatment resistance is one of the major challenges in the fight against cancer. While combination therapies hold promise, their toxicity to healthy tissue remains a major hurdle.

Rodents and primates around the world can breathe a little easier. Ditto animal rights activists who have long opposed testing drugs and conducting other experiments on animals. Top officials from the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanomaterials are being developed for an array of applications including energy, manufacturing, waste treatment, consumer products, and medicine. The proliferation of ...

Toxicology refers to the study of chemical substances that cause harm to biological organisms. They can be present in pharmaceutical drugs, food additives, cosmetics, pesticides, agricultural ...

Jessica Scott-Reid is a freelance journalist and animal advocate based in Winnipeg. In 2016, when Canadian scientist Dr. Charu Chandrasekera was attending international meetings on developing ...

Life sciences researchers need a host of tools to develop and test critical disease-treating drugs and therapies, from basic research to final product release. Primary cells, media, and reagents are ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will aggressively reduce the use of animals in toxicity testing, with a goal of eliminating all routine safety tests on mammals by 2035. Chemicals such as ...

In light of mounting concerns regarding the potential toxicity of some nanomaterials, scientists have designed a rapid screening tool to help predict which ones are likely to be harmful. Hundreds of ...

The European Commission has revealed details of a major new research programme to develop a modern, high-throughput approach to repeat-dose toxicity testing. Pressure to launch such an effort arose ...

Some cancer patients react very badly to commonly used chemotherapies — but there is a test that can identify those patients. So why isn't this test being used? This is the question currently being ...