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Workshop: Computer Simulations and the Changing Face of Scientific Experimentation
Thursday, 03 March 2011 16:18The workshop intends philosophical and historical discussion about the relation between computer simulations and experimentation.
ECHA: request for information on existing vertebrate tests
Monday, 28 February 2011 16:12To ensure that the best use has been made of existing information, particularly information on existing vertebrate tests, the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) publishes all test proposals involving vertebrate animals, for endpoints specified in Annexes IX and X under REACH, on this webpage before the testing is carried out.
Artificial, automated human skin model from IGB
Friday, 11 February 2011 16:10From the end of March on human skin modells shall literally be produced on a conveyor belt by IGB in Stuttgart. At first, the scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) want to produce 5.000 thumbnail seized skin models per month, fully automated and ready for dispatch.
Rhineland-Palatinate promotes cooperation project for development of alternatives to animal experiments
Monday, 07 February 2011 16:08The Rhineland-Palatinate's Ministry of the Environment is funding a two-year cooperation project between the Institute of Human Genetics at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the Institute for Biological interfaces at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the objective of which is to develop alternatve methods to animal experiments.
Alternative to animal experiments in cosmetic research
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 16:06January of this year saw the launch of the research project DETECTIVE, funded with more than eight millinon euros and led by Professor Dr. Jürgen Hescheler of the University of Cologne. DETECTIVE is a project of the 6th EU Research Framework Programme in collaboration with the COLIPA (European Cosmetic Association). The project's oblective is to help ascertain endpoints (study objectives) and bio-markers for the long-term toxicity examinations with the assistance in vitro systems.
Unilever no longer conducts animal experiments for teas or tea products
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 16:04The world largest producer of tea, e.g. Lipton tea, Unilever, has announced that it has stopped all animal experiments for tea or tea ingredients, effective immediately, unless required by law.
Mouse bio-assay replaced as of today
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 15:53A new EU regulation puts an end to the so-called mouse bio-assay which has used for testing toxin contamination in shellfish, instead requiring an animal-free chemical testing procedure.
Improvement of animal welfare in research: The DFG awards the Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 15:46For the fourth time the German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded the Ursula M. Händel Animal Welfare Prize to those scientists who are considered to have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research. On January 24th the prize was awarded to the members of two working groups by Prof. Matthias Kleiner, President of the DFG, at the Wissenschaftsforum in Berlin. The groups from Hamburg and Konstanz share the prize money of 50.000 Euro.
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry clarifies an important process in the development of neurogenerative diseases by in vitro methods
Wednesday, 12 January 2011 15:44By genetic engineering scientists got one step closer to solve the cause of neurogenerative diseases. Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich used the method of transfection of HEK293T cells with artificial proteins to find out how protein aggregates lead to neurogenerative diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson or Chorea Huntington.
EFSA is searching for scientists for external review of EFSA output
Wednesday, 08 December 2010 15:42The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched a call to expand the reserve list of the External Review Working Group. Committed to the continuous enhancement of its scientific work, the European Food Safety Authority will organise the second external review of the quality of its scientific outputs.
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