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Environmental exposure to thousands of synthetic chemicals poses a growing challenge for public health, largely because their ...

The use of animals to test the toxicity of chemicals may one day become outdated thanks to a low-cost, high-speed algorithm.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

To reduce extensive animal testing and speed up safety evaluations, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is moving slowly but surely to incorporate data from ...

Professors from USC, UCLA, and other nonprofit scientists collaborate in absence of government testing A group of scientists ...

The in vitro toxicity testing market is projected to grow at a CAGR of ~10% over the forecast period. Major factors driving growth include growing investment in research and development for early ...

Advanced algorithms working from large chemical databases can predict a new chemical's toxicity better than standard animal tests, suggests a study led by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...

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 ...

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 ...

The purpose of toxicity testing is to generate information about a substance’s toxic properties so that the health and environmental risks it poses can be adequately evaluated. Federal agencies use ...