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Green Party demand for database to avoid animal test duplications
Thursday, 29 September 2016 09:38Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Christian Meyer wants decrease the number of animal experiments by means of an European database.
Financial support for astrocyte coculture in the Petri Dish
Tuesday, 27 September 2016 11:30In the following three years, in vitro researcher Prof. Marcel Leist, head of the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair of in vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine at the University Konstanz, will recieve funding to establish an important brain cell type in the petri dish which is called astrocytes. This will be a next step on the way to replace animal experiments in biomedical research.
European Court: No deviation from sales ban on cosmetics tested on animals
Thursday, 22 September 2016 11:57Three British companies wanted to sell cosmetics in europe that they had been tested on animals for the Asian market (China and Japan). However, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed the existing sales prohibition on cosmetics tested on animals in Europe that came into practise on March 11, 2013.
ECHA: Advice on test guideline for fish embryo acute toxicity test
Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:43ECHA has published advice on how to use the OECD test guideline on fish embryo acute toxicity (FET) test under REACH. The document describes the scope and the limitations when using the FET test.
Baden-Württemberg supports three projects to replace animal experiments
Monday, 19 September 2016 21:28As the only state Baden-Württemberg annually supports the development of alternatives to animal experiments with 400,000 euros. In this round, three scientists are promoted for their development of in vitro methods and another project will be financed to improve welfare conditions of mice.
German-American Virus research Team honored with Lasker Award
Thursday, 15 September 2016 08:29The virologists Prof. Ralf Bartenschlager from the Heidelberg University and two American colleagues will be awarded the highest medical and scientific award of the USA, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. The award is regarded as the unofficial "American Nobel Prize in Medicine". The scientists will be honored for their long-lasting research on breeding of hepatitis C virus in cell culture systems.
US researcher: Already 12 tissue types on the chip available
Wednesday, 14 September 2016 13:38Professor Anthony Atala from Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina is a specialist in the field of regenerative medicine. But his subject is also miniorgans-on-a-chip: Together with his team he is already able to cultivate 12 different tissue types on the chip.
Nijmegen breakage syndrome: signaling pathway for microcephaly discovered
Wednesday, 14 September 2016 13:00The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, headed by Prof. Michal Goldberg and Prof. Nissim Benvenisty together with researchers from Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, headed by Prof. James Adjaye, have uncovered a signalling pathway mechanism which is responsible for the formation of microcephaly. This disease picture is one of several that may occur in the genetic Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS).
Parkinson research: Therapy Development with yeast cells
Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:18Basic researchers from Excellenzcluster CNMPB in Göttingen led by Prof. Gerhard Braus use yeast cells to study cellular mechanisms of Morbus Parkinson. They got new insights about pathogenic processes.
In vitro disease model: Heart rhythm cells tagged with light sensor
Wednesday, 14 September 2016 10:27To investigate heart rhythm disturbances in vitro, researchers led by Dr. Daniel Sinnecker from the Technical University of Munich have integrated an optical sensor in heart cells in order to distinguish heart cell types by their electric potential from each other. The heart cells are produced from patients´ induced pluripotent stem cells.
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