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…
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…
Basics of Toxicology How pollutants move through us 3 Feb 2018February 24, 2022 Feature image: Movement of xenobiotics in our body First, let's learn a new term -- xenobiotic. A xenobiotic is a compound that is foreign to an organism, i.e., it does…
Basics of Toxicology How pollutants move through the environment 28 Jan 2018October 29, 2021 Feature image: Structure of DDT. Chemical structures help determine how a chemical would move in the environment Toxicologists love chemical structures because structures tell a lot about a chemical, just…