Sentences with phrase «first toxicological»

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Now researchers at the University of Plymouth, working in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, have for the first time successfully cultured and maintained cells from the guts of rainbow trout, a recommended fish species for toxicological studies.

«The results of earlier toxicological and experimental studies have shown that these short exposures to very high concentrations of pollutants can have a disproportionately high impact on health» explains Mar Álvarez - Pedrerol, ISGlobal researcher and first author of the study.

This is the first time that toxicological measurements have been combined with a population study carried out over such a long period in the Antarctic and Subantarctic.

First, that the hard risk sciences can only take us so far, because they are based on assumptions (assumptions as we extrapolate toxicological findings on test species to humans, or even the very the somatic theory of cancer itself, see Soto A.M., Sonnenschein, C..

We take the risks of toxicological and ecological side effects because the first priority is to feed a growing population of humans.