Researchers from Eawag in Dübendorf, Switzerland, as well as from the Swiss Data Science Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, have trained AI algorithms with a comprehensive ecotoxicological data set. Their machine learning models can predict how toxic chemicals are to fish.

Using a collection of historical human blood samples, researchers from the Institute of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich have discovered that the severity of an infection such as COVID-19 is caused by autoantibodies. These are autoantibodies that neutralize type I interferons (IFN-Is).

The renowned researcher Prof. Milica Radisic from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto will be working at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin-Buch for the next three years with the aim of equipping organoids with blood vessels. This would make them more similar to a real organ in miniature format.

At its 179th meeting in June 2024, the Ph.Eur. Commission adopted 57 revised texts aimed to completely remove the test for fever-inducing substances in rabbits (pyrogen test) from the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph.Eur.). This means that the use of the pyrogen test in rabbits is no longer prescribed anywhere in the regulations.