Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and th
A toxicologist working in a lab (United States, 2008)
Lithograph of Mathieu Orfila
Brochure illustrating the work of the CDC Division of Laboratory Sciences
Clinical chemistry is a division in pathology and medical laboratory sciences focusing on qualitative tests of important compounds, referred to as analytes or markers, in bodily fluids and tissues usi