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Testing the Waters

From studying polluted waters off the coast of California to explaining the feasibility of a fungal-based z...
13 Jan 2025

Boom! When Evolutionary Biology and Toxicology Collide

Noah Whiteman, PhD, a professor at UC Berkeley, shares his unique perspective on toxins, stemming from his ...
06 Jan 2025

Cardiovascular Risks from Low-Level Metal Mixtures

Sometimes negative results can be just as interesting as positive ones. Nivetha Subramaniam, a student at M...
30 Dec 2024

Tox in Your Backyard

From Superfund remediation sites near neighborhoods to wartime combat zones, toxicology is everywhere, whic...
23 Dec 2024

Toxicology Is a Team Sport: The Science of Working Together

Did you know that there are scientists who study teamwork? Co-hosts Anne Chappelle, PhD, and David Faulkner...
16 Dec 2024

Pipping the Scales with Zebrafish

Fish on treadmills? Lisa Truong, PhD, MBA, Oregon State University, discusses the unique ways that they tes...
09 Dec 2024

Snow Big Deal? Similar Exposures, Different Outcomes

Can two people experience the same exposure and have different reactions to both chemical and non-chemical ...
02 Dec 2024

High Intensity Sweeteners with a Sugar Czar

Whether its found in nature or composed by chemists a sweetener undergoes the same evaluations, according t...
25 Nov 2024

Little Zombie Parasites

Co-hosts Anne Chappelle and David Faulkner speak with William J. Sullivan, PhD, Showalter Professor of Phar...
18 Nov 2024

The Intersection of Toxicology, Environmental Health Law, and Justice

As the foremost experts on the effects of chemicals, biological substances, and more, toxicologists are key...
03 Aug 2023

Pitfalls in Pharmaceutical Production: Protecting the Actual Drug Makers

While pharmaceuticals provide positive benefits for patients, what about workers that may be exposed during...
27 Jul 2023

The Big Picture of Small Things: Nanotoxicology

Nanoparticles are manmade fibers, particulates, and other objects that are so small that when inhaled, they...
20 Jul 2023

Tox in the Family: Generational Exposure and DDT

Blood samples and health records for 15,000 pregnancies provides a wealth of scientific data. Add samples a...
13 Jul 2023

Bringing Cohorts in Cahoots with Lab Science

The fields of epidemiology and toxicology sometimes find themselves at odds, but Gradient鈥檚 Julie Goodman...
06 Jul 2023

Estradiol Complicates Everything: Toxicology across the Gender Spectrum

When it comes to hormones, everyone has them all, but their levels are where things get interesting. How ch...
29 Jun 2023

Up in Smoke: Where Cannabis Meets the Immune System

Since the discovery of cannabinoid receptors in the mid-1990s, researchers have been trying to determine th...
22 Jun 2023

Wildfire Smoke Isn鈥檛 Monkey Business

Because of natural exposure to wildfire smoke, nonhuman primates have provided an increased understanding o...
05 May 2022

Sweating It Out: Exercise versus Toxic Exposures

With nonalcoholic fatty liver disease affecting nearly a third of the US population, Luma Melo, University ...
28 Apr 2022

Anthropogenic Ghosts on the Coast

While no longer national news, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still impacting the ecological health of ...
21 Apr 2022

Lions and Vultures and Tox, Oh My

How human activity, chemical exposures, and environmental factors combine to contribute to wildlife populat...
14 Apr 2022

The Delicious World of Food Safety

Even chocolate companies and wineries need toxicologists. Alexandria G. Lau, ToxStrategies Inc., has worked...
07 Apr 2022

Heat Stressed: Biostats and Public Health

Biostatistics or data science for public health鈥攚hatever you choose to call it鈥攊nforms understanding of...
31 Mar 2022

The Life-Giving Properties of Liquid Gold

With limited existing research on the effects of medications and exposures on lactation, Christina D. Chamb...
24 Mar 2022

Toxicology Is a Wise Choice: One Health, Many Ecosystems

Studying the effects of metals in whales and alligators, among other species, can offer immense insight int...
17 Mar 2022

Space, the Final Risk Assessment Frontier

How do you set exposure limits to protect human health in a closed container floating in space? Valerie Ryd...
10 Mar 2022

To Breathe a Little Easier and Why the Lungs Are the Sexiest Organ

From vaping to wildfire smoke to pollutants such as diesel exhaust to airborne diseases, the lungs are the ...
03 Jun 2021

All the Tox That's Fit to Print . . . or Present . . . or Blog

With pre-print services, data sharing, open access, and the internet rapidly changing the journal publicati...
27 May 2021

More Than a Color Scheme: The Future of Toxicology in Green Chemistry

Margaret 鈥淢eg鈥� H. Whittaker, Managing Director and Chief Toxicologist of ToxServices LLC, outlines the ...
20 May 2021

Speak Softly and Carry a Big Dataset: The Exposome

Ohio State University鈥檚 Darryl B. Hood reveals how a database with about 25,000 environmental factors and...
13 May 2021

DNA Isn't Destiny, So What Is?

Epigenetics expert Dana C. Dolinoy of the University of Michigan School of Public Health illuminates how ou...
06 May 2021

The United States of Toxicity

Retired National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Director and lifelong federal scientist...
29 Apr 2021

Meet co-hosts Anne Chappelle and David Faulkner as they explore the origins of Adverse Reactions, ...
22 Apr 2021