Reducing the evaluation to only direct contact, rather than including environmental exposures, could leave damaging substances on the market, critics say.

Vanessa Allen Sutherland will resign next month, leaving the agency with just three members of what should be a five-person board.

A group evaluating glyphosate’s cancer risk omitted evidence that the chemical is not carcinogenic.

Following approval by Congress, the president will decide on an update the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act.

A researcher challenges the UK government’s conclusion that neonicotinoids aren’t that bad for pollinators.

For the first time, researchers have mimicked biological evolution using chemicals instead of living organisms.

Two papers detail how a cell’s gradient sensing and cytoskeletal architecture dictate one mode of chemotactic movement.

Researchers elucidate a molecular mechanism through which endocrine disrupting compounds compromise the viability of human gametes.

Researchers are now spotting fewer cases of imposex—in which female sea snails develop male sexual organs—as a result of a chemical ban instituted in 2008.