Spotlight On: Archive

Last Updated:

Print \| Email

PPP: Perspectives in Percutaneous Penetration

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
AltTox invited Dr. William Dressler to provide a summary of the 11th International Conference on Perspectives in Percutaneous Penetration (PPP). Bill's report illustrates the wide usage of in vitro percutaneous penetration methods to satisfy regulatory and informational needs using a variety of protocols.

New Internet Search Engine for 3R’s Methods: Go3R.org

Monday, April 21, 2008
Go3R.org is a new internet search engine specifically developed for locating information on replacement, reduction, and refinement alternative methods. Find out how this new website can advance our goal of replacing animals in toxicity testing.

Cell-based Microfluidic Devices for Toxicity Testing

Friday, March 28, 2008
Technological advances led by achievements in microfabrication and tissue engineering have provided the tools needed to create microscale devices for conducting many types of laboratory assays...

Federal Agencies Collaborate on New High Throughput Toxicity Screening Initiative

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Will the robotic, high-throughput type of molecular data acquisition that led to the expedited sequencing of the human genome now conquer another major scientific challenge of our time?

ICCVAM Unveils Eagerly Awaited 5-Year Plan

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) released its long awaited five year plan at its 10th anniversary symposium on February 5th. It identifies four priority areas for alternatives test method development...

New Technologies Applied to the Study of an Old Toxin - Arsenic

Monday, February 4, 2008
Toxicogenomics Suggests Mechanism for Cancer Risk from Prenatal Exposure to Arsenic

A recent study found that human maternal exposure to arsenic results in substantial gene expression changes in the newborns...

Have You Visited AltTox.org's Informational Resources?

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
AltTox.org provides a helpful collection of links to online resources for researchers and others interested in non-animal methods for toxicity testing. These links point to specific websites, publications, organizations, databases, and other sources of online information.

Don't Overlook the AltTox.org "Way Forward" Commentaries

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Readers navigating AltTox.org for the first time will quickly realize that the bulk of the website is divided into two sections...

Why a Website Devoted to Non-animal Methods for Toxicity Testing?

Thursday, December 6, 2007
There are clear signs that toxicity testing is in the early stages of a paradigm shift away from a reliance on in vivo methods and towards the use of non-animal methods...