The Next Mile Marker on the Road to High Throughput In Vitro Screening?
June 24, 2008 | Posted by John Balbus in In Vitro, NAS, Nanomedicine, Research, Testing
John Balbus, M.D., M.P.H., is Chief Health Scientist.
A new paper by Shaw et al., published in May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “suggests a generalizable and scalable method for the systematic characterization and comparison of novel nanomaterials” using high throughput in vitro tests. Does this mean that the National Academy of Sciences’ vision for toxicity testing in the 21st century – proposed for conventional chemicals – is already here for nanomaterials? Not quite. Read more »
