Tox21 STEPping into the world of computational toxicology 21 Nov 2020December 29, 2021 Featured image was obtained from Wikimedia Commons and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. This report was provided to the Society of Toxicology following my selection as…
Tox21 Pathway-based toxicology 19 Feb 2019November 27, 2022 Featured image: A ripple effect on water. Image source: Sergiu Bacioiu from Romania [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)] Think about the ripple effect. Where one thing causes a series of other…
Tox21 How toxicology needs to change 26 Jan 2019December 29, 2021 Featured image: A change is coming? Image source: Amman Wahab Nizamani [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons We spoke in some length about why toxicology needs to change. There…
Special Topics Structure and activity 15 Aug 2018October 7, 2020 There is a reason why toxicologists love chemical structures. Because structures tell stories. And there is this cool model with a not-so-cool name that helps translate chemical goop into interesting…
Special Topics Mapping the sensitivity of multiple species 3 Aug 2018March 13, 2020 Coffee, chocolates and alcohol..how I cherish them. But a dog probably doesn't feel the same -- all these three items are poisonous to them! And this difference is the basis…
Basics of Toxicology Exposure to pollutants 19 Apr 2018February 24, 2022 Featured image: The three ways humans can get exposed to environmental pollutants. Image source: Damalas and Koutroubas et al., 2016 The concept of exposure is well-grained in our psyche. We…
Special Topics Biological scaling 15 Apr 2018December 29, 2021 Featured image: The brain and heart grow at different rates relative to the human body. [Image source: Shingleton, A. (2010) Allometry: The Study of Biological Scaling. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):2. (Adapted from Moore 1983; Data from…
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