Tox Testing Marches to a New Beat
Drug Discovery & Development – December 1, 2009
The current pharmaceutical landscape demands safe drugs. To that end, the industry is replete with a seemingly never-ending array of toxicity testing tools and approaches. Cell-based toxicity testing is one of those approaches and is primarily performed at the preclinical stage. Various cell lines are available for toxicity testing, including, most recently, stem cells. Toxicity testing is performed by all of the major types of companies within the industry. As a contract research organization (CRO), Charles River (Wilmington, Mass.) offers a large panel of in vitro toxicity testing...Read the full article.