As the Director of the Great Lakes Genomics Center in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Professor Rebecca Klaper researches emerging contaminants such as nanomaterials and pharmaceuticals and how they affect …
toxicology
Thus Spake Paracelsus*
by Joel Pedersen The Swiss Renaissance physician, alchemist and founder of toxicology Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus (!) von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (Figure 1), said it well: “All substances are poisons; there is none …
Adrift in a Sea of Chemicals, Toxicology Throws Us a Line
by Becky Curtis edited by Alicia McGeachy and Arielle Mensch How do we stay safe in a world full of chemicals? Everywhere we look, we find chemistry – both natural and synthetic – at work …