Invitro+Jobs

The OECD has published a new test guideline. It describes several defined approaches to classify skin sensitization potential that are equivalent or even superior to the information provided by the mouse Local Lymph Node Assay.

A team of scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has developed cardioids, which are self-organizing heart organoids, from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Once again, the Senate Department for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination, the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LaGeSo) as well as the Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (vfa) are offering the "Alternatives to Animal Testing" research prize of the State of Berlin to promote the development of replacement and supplementary methods.