Invitro+Jobs

Researchers from the Institute for Reconstructive Neurobiology at the University of Bonn, the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Neuroscience (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Bonn, together with other colleagues from the Universities of Bonn, Aachen and Munich, has succeeded in converting white blood cells directly into neuronal stem cells without the time-consuming process of inducing pluripotent cells (iPSC).

Scientists headed by Dr Udo Klotzbach, Business Unit Manager Microtechnology at Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden have received the Innovation Award of the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO). The organisation honoured the scientists for their development of a multi-organ chip system, on which tiny organs connected by a blood circulation system can be reproduced.

The this year's Animal Welfare Research Prize of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMEL) is awarded to Professor Dirk Görlich and Dr Tino Pleiner from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. The scientists have developed a method that can replace the production of secondary antibodies in animals. The two scientists have succeeded in developing a new type of antibody, so-called secondary nanobodies, which can be multiplied without the use of animals.