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The Future of Toxicology
Last week, I was privileged to attend the Future Tox II conference in Chapel Hill, NC. This conference, sponsored by the Society of Toxicology, was focused on recent advances in in vitro and in silico toxicology, as directed towards improvements … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century toxicology, adverse outcome pathways, AOPs, CPSC, EPA, FDA, Future Tox II, predictive toxicology, Society of Toxicology
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How Reliable is Scientific Research?
The scientific method was developed as a means to understand objective reality, or more simply stated, to discover the truth about the universe we inhabit. Commonly, it is regarded to consist of four steps: 1. Observe a phenomenon. 2. Conceive … Continue reading
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Tagged John Bohannon, John Ioannidis, Nature, Peter Suber, Science, scientific method, scientific reliability, The Economist
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Big Data for Big Problems
In order to do science, a scientist must collect information about the phenomena he is studying. In the days before computers, information collection was laborious, and in many instances, a scientist was faced with the problem of too little information … Continue reading
A (Very!) Brief History of Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering has its origins in plant and animal breeding. Sometime in antiquity, someone observed that like produces like – on the average, if one breeds two strong, healthy brown cows, one gets more strong, healthy brown cows. Change one … Continue reading
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