{"id":115,"date":"2015-07-31T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/?p=115"},"modified":"2015-09-18T19:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T19:15:31","slug":"toxicologists-explore-chemical-risks-to-health-needs-further-summarizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/2015\/07\/31\/toxicologists-explore-chemical-risks-to-health-needs-further-summarizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxicologists Explore Risks of Chemicals to Human Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toxicologist Pioneers New\u00a0Research Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Tanguay, in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, has pioneered the use of zebrafish to test the effects of commerical chemicals on biological development, on account of the minnows&#8217; rapid growth rate. He is part of one of the largest toxicology studies ever conducted on living organisms, screening 1,060 different compounds for 22 possible effects, using zebrafish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toxicologist Designs Wristband Sampling Device<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OSU toxicologist Kim Anderson has designed a\u00a0wristband sensor that passively abosrbs\u00a0chemicals in air and water, which can late be analyzed in a lab for over 1200 chemicals.\u00a0Her\u00a0team of researchers has also been working in Ohio with larger-scale environmental monitors to measure the impact fracking\u00a0 might have on air quality. Anderson has used these passive samplers with farmers in Africa and in the Gulf of Mexico where the effects of the 2010 oil spill continue to percolate through the environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxicologist Pioneers New\u00a0Research Method Robert Tanguay, in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, has pioneered the use of zebrafish to test the effects of commerical chemicals on biological development, on account of the minnows&#8217; rapid growth rate. He is part of one of the largest toxicology studies ever conducted on living organisms, screening 1,060 different compounds for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/casprovostreport2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}