Toxicology

Lonza will host the 1st Global Endotoxin Testing Summit, which will take place from June 1-3rd 2015 in Annapolis, MD and Pickering Beach, DE. The summit, hosted by one of the world’s leading suppliers of endotoxin detection products, will cover topics such as low endotoxin recovery, the use of alternative test methods that do not rely on horseshoe crab blood, and new options for process optimization.

A genetically diverse mouse model is able to predict the range of response to chemical exposures that might be observed in human populations, researchers from the National Institutes of Health have found. Like humans, each Diversity Outbred mouse is genetically unique, and the extent of genetic variability among these mice is similar to the genetic variation seen among humans.

Medicinal plant market goes untested for health hazards, according to a recent study published in journal Fungal Biology

A major bottleneck in the drug development process is toxicological testing. Traditional in vivo tests performed in animals are difficult to automate; one can't put a rat into a 96-well plate! How does one manage this leg of the development process, where not "failing early" can mean millions of dollars in wasted capital?










