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David Basketter, a specialist in the field of in vitro allergy research, gave a lecture yesterday on the current state of developments in the field of animal-free skin sensitisation testing.

With the help of a cel culture researchers from Ruhr University Bochum have established a hypothesis for the development of Alzheimer's disease by investigation of the interaction of the proteins FE65 and BLM during regulation of cell division.

For his work on alternative methods to animal testing the toxicologist Prof. Dr. Marcel Leist received the € 15,000 Felix Wankel Animal Welfare Research award.

Scientists at the University Surgical Hospital in Heidelberg together with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a methodology allowing to study aggressive pancreatic tumors which does not require animal tests.

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the leadership of Scott T. Magness, PhD, assistant professor in the departments of medicine, biomedical engineering, and cell and molecular physiology at UNC, together with Megan K. Fuller, MD,  were successful in isolating adult stem cells from human intestinal tissue.

Online survey on REACH

Thursday, 04 April 2013 18:45

An online survey is lead by the Federal Bureau of chemicals at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) until May 3, 2013. All players of the REACH process are invited to participate.

The consortium of the EU-funded research project, "ML² - Multilayer MicroLab" wants to establish a new procedure for a cost-effective large-scale series production of lab-on-a-chip systems, so these systems can be disseminated to the market quickly.

Gene evolution: Not only copies

Tuesday, 26 March 2013 18:48

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön have examined genes from human, mouse, zebrafish and stickleback. They refuted the thesis that new genes are created simply from copies of old genes.

A group of American and Japanese researchers using the functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography succeeded in elucidating the processes in the brain that lead to an self-overestimation. The researchers published their findings in the Journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS).

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Sony DADC announced a collaboration that will harness Sony DADC’s global manufacturing expertise to further advance the Institute’s Organs-on-Chips technologies.