Monday, August 3, 2009

Tox21: New Dimensions of Toxicity Testing

Tox21: New Dimensions of Toxicity Testing
http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/117-8/focus.html

"On the ground floor of the National Institutes of Health Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC) in Rockville, Maryland, a $10-million automated laboratory spends all day and night screening chemicals at speeds no team of human researchers could ever match. In a week, depending on the nature of the assay, it can yield up to 2.2 million molecular data points derived from thousands of chemicals tested at 15 concentrations each."

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