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Education without animal use: new simulation programs for physiology
Friday, 21 June 2013 17:44On the website Virtual Physiology from the Institute of Physiology, University of Marburg, the new simulation programm editition Virtual Physiology, formerly published by Thieme, is offered with improved and extended functions.
Big Brain: virtual model consisting of 7400 brain sections
Friday, 21 June 2013 17:19The model is a virtual three-dimensional brain based on information from more than 7400 tissue slices of 20 micrometers obtained from a human brain. It has been developed by JARA-BRAIN, a brain research alliance between the RWTH University Aachen and the Jülich Research Centre in collaboration with scientists from Montréal (Canada).
Berlin-Brandenburg Animal Welfare Research Award Ceremony
Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:43On the 9th August, the Berlin-Brandenburg animal welfare research prize of 15,000 euros will be awarded to Prof. Dr. Günter Weindl from the Institute of Pharmacology, Free University of Berlin. He will receive the award for his development of an immunocompetent skin model as a replacement and reduction method to animal experiments.
In vitro model let sprout new vessels
Saturday, 15 June 2013 18:17Researchers from the Pennsilvania University in Philadelphia have succeeded in producing an in vitro model that can let sprout new blood vessels from previously artificially preformed blood vessels.
Alzheimer's research with 3D chip
Friday, 24 May 2013 18:18Researchers from the Biomedical Center (BBZ) at the Leipzig University have developed a chip that allow them to investigate the Alzheimer's disease using specific human neuroblastoma cells.
Malaysia: Conference on Alternatives to Animal Models
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 18:20At the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, an International Conference on Alternatives to Animal Models will be held. Main topics are the current international progress in the field of alternatives to animal models and the implementation of alternatives in medical education and training.
Immune response of the brain discovered in vitro
Friday, 10 May 2013 18:24Using cell cultures, scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg have found out that microglia, the immune cells of the brain, are able to produce itaconic acid, a substance that can inhibit bacterial growth.
Major Lab Project “EU-Openscreen” supported by German Ministry of Education and Research
Friday, 10 May 2013 18:22The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has added the major project EU-Openscreen to its “Roadmap for Research Infrastructures”. Its task will be to provide researchers with biologically active substances from a repository of substances.
ECEAE welcomes ruling in landmark rabbits testing case
Friday, 03 May 2013 18:27The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) warmly welcomes the decision on 29 April 2013 of the Board of Appeal (BoA) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), allowing the appeal by chemicals giant Honeywell against ECHA’s decision that it should carry out a 90-day inhalation experiment on rabbits for a refrigerant for its car air conditioner system.
Tumor sections against brain tumor
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 18:25To explore new agents against the particularly aggressive glioblastoma, so far researchers have carried out especially stressful animal experiments on mice. Now researchers at the Leipzig University, Institute of Anatomy, intend to do this research on original human-specific tumor slices.
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