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NIBIO Project Making Progress in Discovery of Safety Biomarkers for Evaluating Drug Toxicity
Speaking at a workshop held by the Japan Health Sciences Foundation on September 1, Hiroshi Yamada, sub-project leader of the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation’s (NIBIO) Toxicogenomics Informatics Project, announced that the development of safety biomarkers used in the evaluation…
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