Toxicology

Environmental toxicology (ENTOX) has been developing quickly since Rachel Carson raised the awareness of people for environmental pollution in 1960s. ENTOX aims to address impacts of toxic compounds on human/animal health and ecosystems, as well as response, resilience and adaptation of ecosystems to toxic environmental stress at macro and micro levels. ENTOX integrates biology, epidemiology, Pathobiology, chemistry, eco-environmental sciences, agricultural and food sciences, hydrological and soil sciences, human/animal health, and social risk management. Rapid development of new technologies such as informative chemical and Bioanalytical tools (transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) are changing the way Ecotoxicology is practiced. With the popularization of wireless devices, an attention has been put on impacts of radio-frequency and extremely lowfrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF and ELF-EMF) from cell phone towers and wireless devices on human biology, and ecosystems. Most of the ENTOX problems are complex and interdependent. A great challenge is how to efficiently analyze, respond and solve the complex ENTOX problems in a satisfactory quantitative manner. Zewei Miao, Systems Approaches for Understanding Environmental Toxicology

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Last date updated on September, 2024