CIRM Seminar: Autism, Toxicology, Environmental Health and Stem Cell Science

Since World War II, over 80,000 chemical compounds have been developed in the U.S. About 3,000 of these chemicals are produced at rate of one million pounds per year. Do these chemicals have potential public health risks? Can exposure to these chemicals be linked to childhood development disorders, such as autism? What challenges do environmental health programs face in trying to identify toxic chemicals? Could stem cell science help assess the toxicity of these chemicals? A panel of speakers addressed these questions at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine on September 30, 2009.

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	Geoffrey Lomax, PhD Introduction (7min 42sec)
	Eric Roberts, MD, PhD Pesticides and Autism (27min 30sec)
	Michael McMaster, PhD The Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Predictive Toxicology (35min 16sec)
	Tracy Woodruff, PhD, MPH So Many Chemicals...So Little Time: Stem Cell Research and Environmental Health (19min 13sec)

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