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Eppendorf Award for elucidation of garbage disposal in cells
Monday, 20 April 2015 15:18This year, the young scientist Dr. Thomas Wollert, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, receives the Eppendorf Young Investigator Award for his elucidation of the cellular mechanism of autophagy. The prize is worth 20,000 euros.
FRAME Survey: What is necessary to advance the termination of animal experiments?
Monday, 20 April 2015 15:16The Fund for the Replacement on Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME) is conducting an online survey by the question of what is needed to advance the termination of animal experiments. Each is addressed to participate in the survey.
Survey: Animal-free Research still a Challenge
Monday, 20 April 2015 15:14Since some years, the cosmetics company LUSH awards its LUSH prize to developers in the field of replacement methods to animal testing. A total of 250,000 British pounds are divided into winners of the five categories of science, lobbying, training, public awareness and young scientists.
Taiwan: Legislator, bill to end animal testing of cosmetics
Monday, 20 April 2015 15:13Legislator Wang Yu-Min and the Taiwan SPCA, advocating the BeCrueltyFree Taiwan campaign, launched a bill yesterday at the Legislative Yuan to ban animal testing of cosmetics in the country.
EU sales ban: ECEAE and BUAV intervene at the Court
Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:11The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) Tand European Coalition to End Animal Experiments have this week lodged our formal observations at the Court of Justice of the European Union in a case about the scope of the EU cosmetics animal testing bans.
Scientific Output with short half-life period
Tuesday, 14 April 2015 15:09In their study "attention decay in science", a Finnish team of researchers from Aalto University discuss the question of whether scientists are able to process all new published evidence at all. The period during which the scientific community turns to a publication diminishes more and more.
Great Britain bans household products tested on Animals
Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:07The Home Office (Innenministerium) is to introduce a ban on testing household products on animals with effect from October. The move follows a detailed consultation about the impact such a ban would have on industry and the economy.
Scientists develop atomic force microscopy for imaging nanoscale dynamics of neurons
Monday, 16 March 2015 15:06Researchers at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA, and Kanazawa University, Japan, have succeeded in imaging structural dynamics of living neurons with an unprecedented spatial resolution.
LUSH Prize 2015
Monday, 09 March 2015 22:49Now it is the fourth time that the Cosmetic Company LUSH will give the Lush Prize, an initiative which will focus resources on bringing forward the day when all product safety testing takes place without the use of animals.
Metabolomics and transcriptomics improve understanding of epidemiological study results
Monday, 09 March 2015 22:38Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München have investigated the effects of long-term weight changes on the metabolism.
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