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Artificial intelligence outperforms the repetitive animal tests in identifying toxic chemicals

  • Written by Thomas Hartung, Professor of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
These rats are in special cages for urine collection. Every year, millions of animals are used for testing chemicals that are used in industrial products.By unoL/shutterstock.com

Most consumers would be dismayed with how little we know about the majority of chemicals. Only 3 percent of industrial chemicals – mostly drugs and pesticides...

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