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REMINDER: only one week left for applications for EPAA Student grants 2025
Thursday, 06 February 2025 12:40The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students and young scientists with outstanding work in the field of alternative approaches for attending a high-profile scientific event. The deadline for participation in MPS World summit as well as for the SETAC congress is 14 February 2025.
United States: Senators push to reduce animal testing in $5.5 billion research sector
Wednesday, 05 February 2025 10:24A group of Republican and Democratic senators has reintroduced a bill urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt modern alternatives to animal testing.
ESAC: Two in vitro genotoxicity tests positively evaluated
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 14:28At the end of January, an ESAC statement was published following an evaluation of the in vitro test methods “Reconstructed human Skin (RS) Comet” and “Micronucleus (RSMN)” for the assessment of genotoxicity. The assessments appear promising.
Charité 3R Service Platform improves access to human biosamples for research
Thursday, 30 January 2025 17:34The Volkswagen Foundation is funding the development of the service platform “Primary Tissue Pipeline” for two years. The service platform facilitates access to primary human tissue for researchers at Charité/BIH, thus improving research opportunities at Charité.
Personalized mini-organs could speed up treatments of rare diseases
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 13:30A study published in Nature suggests that lab-grown organoids can help predict the treatment effects of genetic drugs made from RNA for people with rare diseases.
Accelerating drug development with high-throughput metabolomics
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 11:59Researchers at the University of Basel used the method of high-throughput metabolomics to simultaneously test the effects of more than 1,500 active substances on the metabolism of cells.
set Foundation: next funding period to start again in 2026
Thursday, 23 January 2025 10:58The Foundation for the Promotion of Research into Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Experiments (Stiftung zur Förderung der Erforschung von Ersatz- und Ergänzungsmethoden zum Tierversuch, set Foundation for short) is suspending its funding round this year.
Alzheimer's research in vitro: Injury could reactivate herpes virus that promotes neurodegeneration
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 11:52Using a brain organoid model, a research team from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, has observed that neuronal injury can reactivate latent herpes type 1 viruses, leading to the production and accumulation of ß-amyloid and phosphorylated tauproein, which promotes synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration.
Florida: Multi-organ-on-a-chip system of overdose
Thursday, 16 January 2025 18:26A research team led by Prof. James Hickman of Hesperos Inc., in collaboration with the University of Central Florida in Orlando, has developed a novel multi-organ MPS model to investigate the efficacy and off-target toxicity of naloxone in combination with opioids.
FDA guidance on the use of AI in the development of drugs and biological products
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 14:26The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a draft guidance document on the use of artificial intelligence for the safety assessment of drugs and biological products.
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