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Japan: Asahi Group will ban animal testing for food and beverage by the end of 2021
Friday, 17 July 2020 09:41On July 10, Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. (Asahi Group) which owns Asahi Breweries, Asahi Soft Drinks, and Asahi Group Foods responded to JAVA's request to ban animal testing.
Berlin University Alliance: Coronavirus Pre-Exploration Project has started
Friday, 17 July 2020 09:32The project is divided into six thematic areas, in which research is also carried out to study SARS-CoV-2 infection using 2- and 3-dimensional human tissue models and alternative models to animal experiments.
Israel: Drug testing with 3D hearts
Wednesday, 15 July 2020 13:58Researchers from the University of Tel Aviv will work together with Bayer to develop and validate an in vitro cardiotoxicity platform for drug screening.
OPTi-OX: Reprogramming stem cells directly into the desired cell type
Wednesday, 15 July 2020 12:24The company Bit Bio is specialized in the deterministic programming of human cells, thereby skipping the time-consuming and inconsistent embryonic development.
Berlin: Einstein Center 3R for the development of alternative methods in biomedical research
Thursday, 09 July 2020 12:54The Einstein Foundation in Berlin has approved the preliminary stage of an Einstein Center 3R for the development of alternative methods to animal testing.
South Carolina: In vitro heart attack model
Wednesday, 08 July 2020 09:19To better understand heart failure and to improve drug testing for patients with heart failure, scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and from Clemson University have developed a heart attack model in the form of an organoid.
Switzerland: Research funding for non-animal test methods
Tuesday, 07 July 2020 12:29This year, the 3R Competence Centre Switzerland (3RCC) is supporting four projects with 1.3 million Swiss francs in total.
European Patent Office: Patents on genetically modified great apes withdrawn
Tuesday, 07 July 2020 12:27Success for animal welfare: After years of legal battle, two patents on genetically modified great apes have been withdrawn. An alliance of animal and environmental protection organizations had fought against the patents for years.
Infection mechanism: coronavirus can infect neighbouring cells via filipodia
Monday, 29 June 2020 15:24An American research team from the University of California has observed in vitro that cells infected with SARS-CoV2 can infect their neighbors with the coronavirus via filipodia - thread-like protuberances of the cells - before they are eliminated by the immune system.
DNT: Mixtures can be more harmful than individual chemicals
Monday, 29 June 2020 10:40Using cell cultures and a mathematical model, scientists at the European Union's Joint Research Centre have found that the effects of chemical mixtures on the developing human brain can be more harmful than the sum of the individual chemical effects determined in tests.
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