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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.
rsfMRT make nerve cell communication visible
Thursday, 15 August 2013 13:23The resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI), a relatively new imaging method, is able to make visible the brain´s active regions at rest. Therefore it is possible to investigate some aspects of diseases such as Alzheimer's or schizophrenia non-invasively.
“..In the end, it is the sustained work that is necessary..”
Thursday, 08 August 2013 13:27The Animal Welfare Research Award for Berlin-Brandenburg 2013 will be conferred this Friday for the second time. InVitroJobs interviewed the recipient, Prof. Dr. Günther Weindl, in the run-up to the ceremony.
Students develop miniature flow cytometer
Friday, 02 August 2013 16:55Timo Noll and Marvin Kaminski have developed a microchip with which cells can be sorted by size or properties, under the direction of Prof. Michael Schlüter, Chair of Microtechnology and Medical Engineering at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen.
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