Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 10, 2011. 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.
The robot system, which is located at the NIH Chemical Genomics…
