Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts

Toxicogenomics, the study of how genomes respond to exposure to toxicants, may ultimately hold the promise of detecting changes in the expression of a person''s genes if he or she is exposed to these toxicants. As thetechnology rapidly develops, it is critical that scientists and the public communicate about the promises and limitations of this new field. Communicating technical information to the...