News
New online tool to improve environmental risk assessment of chemicals
Friday, 20 December 2019 10:47In an international project, scientists from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission have collaborated on a high-quality ecotoxicological database called EnviroTox, which aims to improve the environmental risk assessment of chemicals.
EPA Releases Updated List of Alternative Test Methods and Strategies/New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)
Thursday, 19 December 2019 14:58The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an updated version of its List of Alternative Test Methods and Strategies (or New Approach Methodologies [NAMs]).
Hamburg: New professorship for the reduction of animal experiments
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 13:24The University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) establishes a professorship for 3R methods. For this purpose, there will be a start-up financing of 200,000 euros, half each from the UKE and the city.
Baden-Württemberg: 3R Center for Tübingen
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 12:31In order to investigate alternative methods to animal experiments in medical research, the state Baden-Württenberg supports the establishment of a scientific 3R center. From 2020, The Ministry of Science, Research and Art supports the University of Tübingen with a W3 professorship and finances the establishment of a center for alternatives to animal experiments with 130,000 euros per year for an initial period of five years.
Berlin: Two prizewinner teams honoured with the Animal Welfare Research Award
Wednesday, 18 December 2019 11:29Two teams of prize winners were awarded this year's prize for research into substitute and supplementary methods for animal experiments in research and teaching in Berlin.
Liver-on-a-Chip reliably detects liver-toxicity of drugs
Thursday, 28 November 2019 21:10Using a liver-on-a-chip model, a team led by Dr. Geraldine Hamilton, scientific director of the start-up company Emulate from Boston, has investigated whether they are able to detect the toxicity of drugs at an early stage.
Switzerland: Reduction of Mouse Tests using Amoebas
Thursday, 28 November 2019 13:46Prof. Thierry Soldati and his team from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Geneva infected amoebae and amoeboid-mobile slime fungus cells to test new antibiotics and to reduce animal testing with mice.
Netherlands planning new regulations for the reduction of animal testing for drug development
Tuesday, 26 November 2019 20:01According to Dr. Peter Theunissen from the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board (CBG), in the foreseeable future, much fewer animals are used for the evaluation of the developmental toxicology effects of drugs. On behalf of the government, the CBG monitors the quality of pharmaceuticals and is involved in the preparation of guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry.
Würzburg: More complete organoids by mesodermal progenitor cells
Monday, 25 November 2019 13:52Scientists from the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg (JMU) succeeded a step further to complex organoids with blood vessels, immune cells, and connective tissue.
Amyloid fibrils: Different than thought
Thursday, 14 November 2019 12:20For the first time, a German-American team of scientists has succeeded in isolating and investigating beta-amyloid fibrils from the human brain. These protein fibers are suspected of causing Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
Dr. rer. nat.
Menschen für Tierrechte - Tierversuchsgegner Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.