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New Birmingham spinout company Michabo Health Science Ltd, which aims to provide fast, reliable predictions of whether chemicals are potentially hazardous to human health or the environment, will use methods developed by researchers from the University’s School of Biosciences to assess chemical safety without the need for vertebrate animal testing. Click to read more...

BRUSSELS, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A major research project to shape regulation and policy on chemical...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Robert Anholt and Trudy Mackay in a lab holding a test tube containing Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly. view more  Credit: Clemson University College of Science Researchers Trudy Mackay and Robert Anholt of the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics have joined forces with an international consortium intended to drive research that will shape regulation and policy on chemical safety without the use of animal testing. Mackay, an internationally renow...

 E-Mail A major research project to shape regulation and policy on chemical safety without the use of animal testing has been launched with the aid of €19.3M funding from the European Commission. Led by the University of Birmingham and involving 15 European and US organisations, PrecisionTox aims to protect human health from the toxic effects of chemicals found in peoples homes, food and the environment. The consortium will use genetics, genomics, metabolomics and the study of evolution to i...