The Neighborhood Toxicologist

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

A while back I was invited by American Scientist to write my first ever book review. After having just edited a book that was reviewed (mo...

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

First Pulished September 2008 in the Montague Reporter In her 1962 publication, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson wrote about a spring in the ne...

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...

Guest blogger, Dr. Cal Baier-Anderson, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore ; and Environmental Defense, adds her own th...

Throughout my professional life, I have, for the most part buried my head in research. That’s what it’s all about - the science - right? Wro...

Toxicology fascinates me, and I love passing that fascination on to students eager to learn about how chemical contaminants impact their env...

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...