The Neighborhood Toxicologist

There is an interesting article on Synthetic Biology in last week's New Yorker. Though I just gave it a skim, and didn't read the e...

Still stuck in the sunscreen limbo? Wondering which to choose - "chemical" filters or "natural" filters like nanotitani...

This morning while walking across town to the Lady Killigrew , a small hipster café located just around the corner from home, I was think...

A while back I wrote about sunscreens here and here . But that was already over a year ago - and as anyone who is confused by he says and s...

A while back I posted a few items about nanotoxicology. Back then, I must confess I didn’t know much beyond those few articles. Now that I’v...

I just came across a little blurb in this week’s issue of Science, noting that the EPA has finally made some decisions about regulating nano...

For those of us concerned with health and environmental impacts of new and old chemicals, the production and use of nanomaterials presents a...

There is a nice review of Emerging Contaminants , recently published in the journal Analytical Chemistry, by Susan Richardson. In it is a r...

For those interested in nanotoxicology, there is a new journal called Nanotoxicology , published by Informa Healthcare. It’s a quarterly a...

I am still trying to understand the nano-world. It’s a big world and there are many different kinds of very small particles. But I’ve had ...

Obviously size matters for nanoparticles, or the world wouldn’t be making such a big deal of them. Size also matters when it comes to toxic...

Years ago when I first met my husband, I am ashamed to say, I may have belittled the importance of his research project. He was studying l...

Nanotechnology is an interesting field for a toxicologist because of the very public discussion about toxicity, regulation and the future of...

My daughter is rehearsing to be a Who down in Whoville, a creature invisible and nonexistent to all but Dr. Suess’s Horton who first hea...

This week there was an interesting article by Barnaby J. Feder in the New York Times reporting on the regulation or non-regulation of nanop...