A clinical trial to test the safety of BLyS is about to start.
Cosmetics producers are required to test the safety of color additives and gain F.D.A. approval for their intended use, but it is otherwise up to the discretion of producers to test the safety of cosmetic ingredients.
The trial involved only three patients and was designed to test the safety of the gene therapy, not its effectiveness.
The official said China had some capacity to test the safety of those weapons by computer simulation.
He works in Hopewell, N.J., where he helps develop experiments to test the safety of potential drugs.
Artificially grown livers could be transplanted into patients or used to test the safety of experimental drugs.
Healthy human volunteers would still be used to test the safety of a drug since the drug itself is not likely to cause a fatal disease.
Finally in Phase 3, thousands of volunteers who are H.I.V. negative and at high risk of contracting the virus test the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.
Clinical trials, for example, are intended to test the safety and effectiveness of an experimental drug that may benefit the volunteers.
Indeed, cancer patients are often subject to the riskiest Phase 1 trials, which test the safety of potentially toxic agents that could not be used on healthy people.
Until now, he has focused largely on companies that test the safety and durability of concrete used in subways, bridges, roadways, sports stadiums and other structures.
