New Tools To Assess Health Risks From Chemicals Offered By NAS Report

Determining how thousands of chemicals found in the environment may be interacting with the genes in your body to cause disease is becoming easier because of a new field of science called toxicogenomics. A new report issued by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) recognizes the importance of toxicogenomics in predicting effects on human health and recommends the integration of toxicogenomics into regulatory decision making. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Genetics on October 11th, 2007