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Impressions from the European Congress for Alternatives to Animal Testing 2013
Friday, 20 September 2013 21:02The European Congress for Alternatives to Animal Testing took place this year for the eighteenth time. One could therefore say that it can look back on a successful history of almost twenty years.
Parkinson's disease: aetiology with genome analysis and stem cells
Friday, 13 September 2013 12:23The research project, called COURAGE PD, supported by eight EU Member States which are managed by Tübingen researchers and funded with about euro 4,7 million wants to clarify which genes and what kind of environmental factors are responsible for the development of palsy (Parkinson's). In order to do this genome - wide analysisare combined, epidemiological data and results from stem cells obtained from patients own cells are combined.
New cell-sorting method: Non-Inertial Lift Induced Cell Sorting (NILICS)
Wednesday, 04 September 2013 12:26A research team led by the biophysicist Prof. Thomas Franke from the Institute for Experimental Physics I at the University of Augsburg has presented a new cell-sorting method that enables cell sorting without previous marking of a cell fraction.
Light cast on mucosal protection against fungal infections
Tuesday, 03 September 2013 12:30Researchers headed by David Moyes of King's College London have successfully used cell cultures to decipher the mechanism with which mucosa protects itself against the fungal infection Candida albicans.
ABCB4 transporter protects fish embryo from toxic substances: integrated test system recommended
Tuesday, 03 September 2013 12:28Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and colleagues from the Swiss aquatic research institute Eawag have discovered a protein that protects the zebrafish embryo by transporting toxic chemicals out of its body.
Crowdfunding for small projects
Thursday, 29 August 2013 12:32Lab work and attending conferences cost money, so why shouldn't a student wanting to write a master's thesis in the field of replacement methods for animal experiments be financed by crowdfunding? For some time now there have been platforms that address such needs.
Tübingen: combination of two imaging techniques allows new insights into brain function
Tuesday, 27 August 2013 12:35A team of scientists has combined two imaging techniques, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a single apparatus that can be used for especially detailed non-invasive investigation of brain processes.
Medical imaging: software allows reconstruction of read characters
Friday, 23 August 2013 13:10Dutch researchers have succeeded in determining which handwritten characters their subjects have just looked, based solely on brain activity.
Dortmund: Protective mechanism of natural killer cells clarified
Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:21Prof. Dr. Carsten Watzl and his work group “Immunology” at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors in Dortmund have decrypted a protective mechanism of the so-called natural killer cells, an important immune system cell type.
Genome of the Chinese hamster decoded
Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:13Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Alfred Pühler from the Centre for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, a research team has decoded the genome of the Chinese hamster.
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