Prodded into action by Congressional hearings and detailed reports in The Los Angeles Times, a half-dozen agencies are now vowing stronger remedies, including the resumption of long-stalled toxic testing.
The embryos were divided into control and test groups, and were exposed to either control medium or to a potentially toxic test medium.
Rather than engaging in lawsuits and tabloid tirades, why not demand an end to the toxic testing obsession?
Almost 90% of the toxic test groups were correctly classified as toxic using C-SVM.
Subsequently, effects of transporter inhibitors at non-toxic concentrations and, in the case of vinblastine, of morpholino knock-down of Abcb4 and Abcb5 on the sensitivity of the embryos to toxic test compounds were determined.
In the UV/TiO2/O3 reactor (Phases II and III), detoxification was inefficient, increasing the acute toxicity of the effluent and maintaining it extremely toxic on chronic toxicity tests.
It should be considered as a core ingredient of comprehensive household toxics' testing, and has potential to improve participant retention and the overall positive impact of long-term environmental health research efforts.
More broadly, we argue that paying special attention to the researcher-participant relationship, trust-building and participant empowerment, along with the grounding of technical findings in residents' personal experience can be valuable ingredients in comprehensive toxics testing.
In hindsight, mistrust and discord may have been fueled by turf conflict over toxics testing - community-based partners may have viewed household testing as their domain - and also by inadequate community engagement capacity - the difficulty recruiting residents of color, and their lack of representation at the partners' table.
Do these things and remove the toxic regimen of testing, testing, testing and watch children thrive.
