Next week, as the Society of Toxicology (SOT) convenes its 31st annual meeting, its membership totals more than 3,100, double what it was just seven years ago. And for the first time in its history, with attendance expected to top 4,000, the event will be held in a convention center--in this case the huge Seattle Convention Center.
Another sign of the discipline's growth: At this year's meeting--which runs February 23-27--some 1,600 research advances are to be presented in platform discussions and poster sessions. That is 20 percent more than were put forth only a year ago.
Accompanying this quantitative growth, however, is an equally notable qualitative broadening, stemming in large part from burgeoning demands by industry, government, and the public for more information about the chemical risks that exist around us. To empower their field's stepped-up move toward maturity, toxicologists are embracing new scientific techniques from disciplines such as molecular ...
