New Robot System to Test 10,000 Chemicals for Toxicity
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Several federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, today unveiled a new high-speed robot screening system that will test 10,000 different chemicals for potential toxicity. The system marks the beginning of a new phase of an ongoing collaboration, referred to as Tox21, that is working to protect human health by improving how chemicals are tested in the United States.