Biomedical, Biopharma and Clinical Research

Toxicology

Toxicology may be a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and therefore the practice of diagnosing and treating exposures to toxins and toxicants. The connection between dose and its effects on the exposed organism is of high significance in toxicology. Factors that influence chemical toxicity include the dosage, duration of exposure (whether it's acute or chronic), route of exposure, species, age, sex, and environment. Toxicologists are experts on poisons and poisoning. There’s a movement for evidence-based toxicology as part of the larger movement towards evidence-based practices. Toxicology is currently contributing to the sector of cancer research, since some toxins are often used as drugs for killing tumour cells. One prime example of this is often ribosome-inactivating proteins, tested within the treatment of leukaemia. Toxicology uses the facility of science to predict what, and the way chemicals may cause harm and then shares that information to protect public health. When talking about toxicology it's important to keep a few things in mind.