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Latest News from the InVitro-World

  • India ends tests on animals for veterinary vaccines
    The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) has made a change to the Indian Pharmacopoeia with effect from July 1, 2024 and has discontinued the Target Animal Batch Safety Test (TABST) since the effective date.
    Written on Friday, 26 July 2024 10:25 Read more...
  • USA: Brain waves reveal neural circuitry of creative thinking
    A researcher team headed by Prof. Ben Shofty from University of Utah and Assistant Prof. Eleonora Bartoli from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has investigated the way different areas of the brain work together to enable creative thinking.
    Written on Thursday, 25 July 2024 13:23 Read more...
  • Eawag: AI can predict fish toxicity
    Researchers from Eawag in Dübendorf, Switzerland, as well as from the Swiss Data Science Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, have trained AI algorithms with a comprehensive ecotoxicological data set. Their machine learning models can predict how toxic chemicals are to fish.
    Written on Wednesday, 24 July 2024 12:17 Read more...
  • Autoantibodies responsible for the severity of infections
    Using a collection of historical human blood samples, researchers from the Institute of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich have discovered that the severity of an infection such as COVID-19 is caused by autoantibodies. These are autoantibodies that neutralize type I interferons (IFN-Is).
    Written on Wednesday, 24 July 2024 11:00 Read more...
  • Berlin: Renowned organoid researcher works at the MDC
    The renowned researcher Prof. Milica Radisic from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto will be working at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin-Buch for the next three years with the aim of equipping organoids with blood vessels. This would make them more similar to a real organ in miniature format.
    Written on Monday, 08 July 2024 13:41 Read more...
  • Tests for fever-inducing substances: rabbit use finally deleted
    At its 179th meeting in June 2024, the Ph.Eur. Commission adopted 57 revised texts aimed to completely remove the test for fever-inducing substances in rabbits (pyrogen test) from the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph.Eur.). This means that the use of the pyrogen test in rabbits is no longer prescribed anywhere in the regulations.
    Written on Monday, 08 July 2024 10:05 Read more...