Adverse Reactions
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Testing the Waters
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From studying polluted waters off the coast of California to explaining the feasibility of a fungal-based zombie outbreak at San Diego Comic Con, Kari...
Boom! When Evolutionary Biology and Toxicology Collide
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Whiteman, PhD, a professor at UC Berkeley, shares his unique perspective on toxins, stemming from his background in entomology and plant-insect i...
Cardiovascular Risks from Low-Level Metal Mixtures
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes negative results can be just as interesting as positive ones. Nivetha Subramaniam, a student at McGill University, discusses her research re...
Tox in Your Backyard
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Superfund remediation sites near neighborhoods to wartime combat zones, toxicology is everywhere, which is why many states employ toxicologists o...
Toxicology Is a Team Sport: The Science of Working Together
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that there are scientists who study teamwork? Co-hosts Anne Chappelle, PhD, and David Faulkner, PhD, DABT, speak with Stephen Fiore, PhD,...
Pipping the Scales with Zebrafish
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fish on treadmills? Lisa Truong, PhD, MBA, Oregon State University, discusses the unique ways that they test exposure effects using zebrafish. Co-host...
Snow Big Deal? Similar Exposures, Different Outcomes
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can two people experience the same exposure and have different reactions to both chemical and non-chemical stressors? Yes, according to Samantha "...
High Intensity Sweeteners with a Sugar Czar
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether its found in nature or composed by chemists a sweetener undergoes the same evaluations, according to Corey Scott, PhD, Principal Nutritionist,...
Little Zombie Parasites
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Anne Chappelle and David Faulkner speak with William J. Sullivan, PhD, Showalter Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology and Professor of ...
The Intersection of Toxicology, Environmental Health Law, and Justice
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the foremost experts on the effects of chemicals, biological substances, and more, toxicologists are key contributors to health regulation and laws...
Pitfalls in Pharmaceutical Production: Protecting the Actual Drug Makers
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While pharmaceuticals provide positive benefits for patients, what about workers that may be exposed during production? Elizabeth M. Vancza, Merck &am...
The Big Picture of Small Things: Nanotoxicology
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nanoparticles are manmade fibers, particulates, and other objects that are so small that when inhaled, they can escape the lungs and enter other body ...
Tox in the Family: Generational Exposure and DDT
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Blood samples and health records for 15,000 pregnancies provides a wealth of scientific data. Add samples and records from the resultant children and ...
Bringing Cohorts in Cahoots with Lab Science
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fields of epidemiology and toxicology sometimes find themselves at odds, but Gradient’s Julie Goodman, an epidemiologist and toxicologist, share...
Estradiol Complicates Everything: Toxicology across the Gender Spectrum
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to hormones, everyone has them all, but their levels are where things get interesting. How chemicals affect estrogen signaling in the br...
Up in Smoke: Where Cannabis Meets the Immune System
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since the discovery of cannabinoid receptors in the mid-1990s, researchers have been trying to determine their role and how they affect the immune sys...
Wildfire Smoke Isn’t Monkey Business
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Because of natural exposure to wildfire smoke, nonhuman primates have provided an increased understanding of the long-term effects of smoke inhalation...
Sweating It Out: Exercise versus Toxic Exposures
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With nonalcoholic fatty liver disease affecting nearly a third of the US population, Luma Melo, University of Pittsburgh, describes how mouse studies ...
Anthropogenic Ghosts on the Coast
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While no longer national news, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is still impacting the ecological health of the Gulf of Mexico and the livelihoods of t...
Lions and Vultures and Tox, Oh My
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How human activity, chemical exposures, and environmental factors combine to contribute to wildlife population declines is at the forefront of the res...
The Delicious World of Food Safety
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even chocolate companies and wineries need toxicologists. Alexandria G. Lau, ToxStrategies Inc., has worked for both and shares her experiences with c...
Heat Stressed: Biostats and Public Health
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Biostatistics or data science for public health—whatever you choose to call it—informs understanding of the health and environmental impacts of ex...
The Life-Giving Properties of Liquid Gold
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With limited existing research on the effects of medications and exposures on lactation, Christina D. Chambers, University of California San Diego, sh...
Toxicology Is a Wise Choice: One Health, Many Ecosystems
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Studying the effects of metals in whales and alligators, among other species, can offer immense insight into human health, John P. Wise Sr. tells Adve...
Space, the Final Risk Assessment Frontier
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you set exposure limits to protect human health in a closed container floating in space? Valerie Ryder, a toxicologist at the NASA Johnson Spac...
To Breathe a Little Easier and Why the Lungs Are the Sexiest Organ
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From vaping to wildfire smoke to pollutants such as diesel exhaust to airborne diseases, the lungs are the organ most exposed to our external environm...
All the Tox That's Fit to Print . . . or Present . . . or Blog
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With pre-print services, data sharing, open access, and the internet rapidly changing the journal publication landscape, Toxicological Sciences Editor...
More Than a Color Scheme: The Future of Toxicology in Green Chemistry
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret “Meg” H. Whittaker, Managing Director and Chief Toxicologist of ToxServices LLC, outlines the similarities and differences between risk a...
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Dataset: The Exposome
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ohio State University’s Darryl B. Hood reveals how a database with about 25,000 environmental factors and variables associated with the public healt...
DNA Isn't Destiny, So What Is?
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Epigenetics expert Dana C. Dolinoy of the University of Michigan School of Public Health illuminates how our nascent understanding of the epigenome is...
The United States of Toxicity
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Retired National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Director and lifelong federal scientist Linda S. Birnbaum discusses the intersecti...
Capturing Adverse Reactions
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Meet co-hosts Anne Chappelle and David Faulkner as they explore the origins of Adverse Reactions, how people are at the heart of all science, and why ...