The Future of Toxicology-Wrap Up
The Future of Toxicology
Enjoy free Web access to a series of Perspectives appearing in Chemical Research in Toxicology. In connection with the series, the journal is hosting a Perspectives Open Forum that allows members of the community to interact via an ongoing dialogue in discussing each new piece. We welcome your participation and look forward to reading your comments.
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Aaron T. Jacobs and Lawrence J. Marnett
A.B. Hancock Jr. Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research Departments of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
Wither toxicology? We have enjoyed a series of informative, occasionally provocative, commentaries on this subject from individuals with different backgrounds and opinions. The Future of Toxicology series was a highly selective, noncomprehensive exercise designed to uncover relevant issues and to elicit some public discussion. In retrospect, the first objective worked but the second did not. The perspectives were the most heavily downloaded articles of each issue, not surprisingly, since they were both very interesting and freely available on the web. However, they were not extensively discussed, at least not on the CRT website designed for that purpose. This was partly the result of an access glitch for the first few commentaries, but this was eventually corrected. Perhaps readers were not moved by the opinions expressed, maybe they did not agree but were shy about saying it, or perhaps they agreed and felt no need to comment. You can probably imagine which interpretation the journal's Editor prefers, but we really do not know. Regardless, many interesting ideas were expressed throughout the series. We have decided to catalog a few of them here, through the filter of our own experience. We will focus on general concepts rather than specific examples.
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