New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity (w/ Video)
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 14:00
in Mathematics & Economics
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.