Simple Test May Detect Toxic Drugs Faster

Originally published: Mar 20 2015 - 2:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ben P. Stein, Director(Inside Science) -- Testing whether a drug is safe and effective usually takes many years and millions of dollars. Now, researchers have discovered a surprisingly simple method that could quickly and inexpensively weed out many toxic drugs early in the testing process. The test simply explores how much a drug alters a cell's outer covering, or membrane.Pharmaceutical companies go to great lengths to ...