quality control

What if the drugs you are dependent on for your health could maybe give you cancer? What would you choose? To take them anyway? To try to find an alternative that might not work as well? To stop taking them? …..no good choices there. The FDA works hard so that you do not need to make that choice, however, it is difficult to inspect the drugs we use when many ingredients are made overseas. According to an NBC News special , 85% of the raw materials for popular drugs are made overseas, often in India and China where... Read more

Madison College student blogger Mandy Hunter is back on-line and raring to go! No bull! Mandy ponders what it means to be called a "scientist" and shares her summer internship experience working in the barns and learning how to collect semen.

I can't believe I just started the third and final year of my program (you can take the Biotechnology Laboratory Technician program in two years, but I opted for the three year plan, largely because I have my hands full with a veritable gaggle of progeny). All summer long I thought "Only nineteen credits to go! This is... Read more