The April 2016, Vol. 150, No. 2 issue of Toxicological Sciences (ToxSci) is now available online. To have the email Table of Contents (eTOC) delivered to you as well as Advance Access notification of the latest papers and research in ToxSci as soon as these articles are accepted and posted to the website, register online.
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The editorial in this issue by ToxSci Editor-in-Chief Gary W. Miller recognizes the Society of Toxicology Board of Publications Best Paper Award for 2016. Some of the recipients are shown below, who were photographed immediately before the Sunday, March 13 Awards Ceremony held at the SOT 55th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pictured on the far left and far right respectively are 2015–2016 SOT Past President Norbert E. Kaminski and ToxSci Editor-in-Chief Gary W. Miller. Award recipients from left to right are Rachel Church, Alison Harrill, Paul Watkins, Karissa Adkins, and Merrie Mosedale.
As you Look Inside ToxSci, you also will note a message from Dr. Miller regarding an significant scientific landmark: “April 25th marks a special anniversary in the history of science. In 1953, 3 papers were published in the journal Nature that spawned a revolution. While the Watson and Crick paper gets the most attention, there were two other outstanding papers in that same issue by Wilkins, Stokes, and Wilson and by Franklin and Gosling that provided foundational evidence for the model described by Watson and Crick. DNA took center stage and has rightfully done so ever since. However, it is clear that we are much more than our sequence of nucleotides. Our environment truly shapes who we are: from our social upbringing, nutritional sustenance, exposures to a variety of exogenous chemical and biological species, to the symbiotic relationship with our planet. Our field provides the mechanistic basis of the potentially adverse effects of these complex factors that are essential to the understanding of biology. This month I encourage you to manipulate a bit of DNA in honor of those aforementioned giants, and of course please look inside ToxSci for the best original research in the field of toxicology.”
You also will find four Editor's Highlights, which were prepared by Dr. Miller and Associate Editors Aaron Barchowsky, Michael Aschner, and David Warheit.
The mission of ToxSci, the official journal of the Society of Toxicology, is to publish the most influential research in the field of toxicology.