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BASF provides IIVS with In Vitro Equipment
Thursday, 25 October 2012 21:35The chemical company BASF SE has provided U.S. based Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) with equipment critical to replacing the use of animals for eye irritation testing of certain chemicals. IIVS will place the units at each of its newly developed training laboratories in Xi'an, Beijing, and Guangzhou, China.
Toxicology: FDA wants to cooperate with European researchers
Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:36The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to collaborate with European researchers in developing new toxicology tools that advance non-animal based safety science and health research.
Gel scaffold of Pulmonary Mucus forms Barrier for Nanoparticles
Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:33Scientists from Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Saarland University have unraveled the physical properties of the lung mucus. They found out that in lung mucus a stiff gel scaffold seperates large fluid-filled pores from each other and prevents the movement of nanoparticles via pore boundaries.
Cosmetics: ECEAE at the European Parliament
Monday, 22 October 2012 21:38At the 18th of October the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) presented about 240,000 signatures from the No Cruel Cosmetics campaign to the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament. The aim is to end the import and sale of cosmetics tested on animals in Europe. InVitroJobs was also resented.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of G-protein-coupled receptors
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 21:48The biochemists Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka from the United States have received the this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the function of receptors in body cells.
Research Team from the University Clinics of Freiburg and Mannheim receive Animal Welfare Research Award Baden-Württemberg
Tuesday, 09 October 2012 21:43The research team from the University Skin Clinics of Freiburg and Mannheim has developed an animal-free assay system, with which chemicals can be tested for their potential to cause the so-called contact dermatitis, a special form of inflammation.
Nobel Prize for research on reprogrammed stem cells
Monday, 08 October 2012 21:49The Nobel prize for medicine goes to the Japanese Shinya Yamanaka and the British John Gurdon. They are honored for their research on stem cells.
DFG Communication Award 2013
Friday, 28 September 2012 22:16The German Research Foundation (DFG) announces the 14th Communication Award 2013, the Scientific Award of the Founders' Association for German Science (Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft). The prize is valued at € 50,000.
Ministry of Education and Research calls for proposals for innovative toxicology to reduce animal testing
Friday, 21 September 2012 22:31In a first phase to clarify whether and to what extent the potential of omics analysis, bioinformatics and systems biology can contribute to a better understanding of toxicological processes and new, predictive in vitro test methods as substitutes for animal testing, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is calling for proposals for pilot projects on the topic of “Innovative toxicology to reduce animal testing (e:ToP)”.
Hessian Animal Welfare Research Award Ceremony 2012
Wednesday, 12 September 2012 22:17The award is intended to help reduce number and suffering of animals used in scientific research and teaching as well as in manufacture of biomedical products. This year the prize was awarded to two scientists. Additionally, a further group of researchers was honored.
On the occasion of the award ceremony InVitroJobs interviewed the winners.
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