Agency IQ

AUGUST 18, 2023

uses the United Nations (UN) Globally Harmonized System (GHS) , sometimes called the “purple book,” as the basis for its carcinogen classification. This framework is anchored in the Classification, Labeling, and Packaging Regulation (CLP) (1272/2008/EC), the bloc’s definitive legislation on classifying substances and mixtures.

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Codon

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though my focus in this essay is narrow — I don’t discuss bottlenecks in clinical trials, human disease, or animal testing — I hope others will take on these challenges in similar essays. I’m currently reading Gene Dreams , a book published in 1989 by Robert Teitelman. Subscribe to Asimov Press.

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DNA RNA Molecular Biology Laboratories 105

Codon

JUNE 2, 2024

At that time, even though animal breeders had long exploited regularities in the patterns of inheritance, the principles underlying heredity remained mysterious. That is—until the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel showed that traits are passed from parent to offspring in discrete, independently assorted packages.

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