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AngryToxicologist is a scientist in the public health sector, knows plenty about toxicology, and is occasionally angry about it all. Drop me a line at tox@angrytoxicologist.com.

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Any money I would have gotten from writing this blog is donated to the National Capital Poison Control Center. They rely on grants, save lives, and decrease health care costs. So read this blog every day!

What I'm reading, watching, and rating:

SawMichael Clayton*** out of 5

ReadMiddlesex**** out of 5

SawThe Lives of Others***** out of 5. Best movie I've seen in a long time.

Live Blogging Society of Toxicology mtg:

Live from Seattle: Society embraces AngryToxicologist!

There is a animal testing karmic pass up in the exhibition hall! I'll post again when I return from my ego trip. PS Since it's tangentally related, I'm going to use the opportunity to express some outrage at what the...

Live from Seattle: Fatal intracerebral mass bleeding edition

The poster sessions were largely a bust yesterday but I did come across a couple of interesting ones: 1) Definitive evidence that it was the melamine + cyuranic acid that caused toxicity in animals (by creating crystals inside the kidney)....

Live from Seattle: Bisphenol A sucks, folate comes to the rescue

In one of the sessions today there was a fantastic talk by Dr Dolinoy. Here are my notes with some explainations where needed: Epigenetics (this is where you affect gene expression by means other than damaging DNA, messing with transcription...

Live from Seattle: It's the Society of Toxicology!

Gee, I bet you're pumped, right? I'll be doing little updates now and then if I hear anything interesting. The opening lecture was by Dr Lee Hartwell (2001 Nobel Laureate) on science - particularly toxicology, of course - in the...

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