Laboratory evaluation demonstrates high-throughput robotic screening of thousands of chemicals across 15 concentrations, highlighting rapid modern advances in automated molecular toxicity testing.
New Dimensions of Toxicity Testing O n the ground floor of the National Institutes of Health Chemical Genomics Center (NCGC) in Rockville, Maryland, a $10-million automated laboratory spends all day and night screening chemicals at speeds no team of human researchers could ever match.In a week, depending on the nature of the assay, it can yield up to 2.2 million molecular data points derived from thousands of chemicals tested at 15 concentrations each.
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