In the United States, a multi-billion dollar project named “Brain Activity Project” has been launched, with the goal of creating a detailed map of the human brain.

Researchers at the Universität Regensburg, colleagues at the Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena – University of Applied Sciences led by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Feller and four industrial partners have developed a microfluidic chip system for measuring the skin-friendliness of cosmetics.

Clinical studies for testing new medical drugs produce considerable amounts of patient samples that would be extremely valuable for researching diseases, but which have been rarely used so far. In a new research project that is a common initiative of the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry for combating resistant bacteria, scientists now want to make use of this resource.

A team of researchers led by Shaw Warren at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has investigated differences between the immune systems of humans and mice. The researchers discovered that the gene expression of white blood cells (leukocytes) in humans after various induced inflammatory diseases differs greatly to that of various strains of mice.