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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a draft guidance document on the use of artificial intelligence for the safety assessment of drugs and biological products.

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Jörg Tatzelt from the Department of Biochemistry of Neurodegenerative Diseases at Ruhr-Universität Bochum has used new in-vitro and cell culture models to show that a lipid anchor on the outside of nerve cells prevents the prion protein from clumping together.

Since 2017, the French Embassy in Germany, in partnership with the Franco-German University of Applied Sciences, has been awarding the Forcheurs Prize to honor promising Franco-German scientific collaborations between a tandem of young researchers (under 45 years of age) in the field of chemistry, pharmacology or at the interface between chemistry and health. The prize is under the patronage of Jean-Marie Lehn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.