A research team led by Prof. Dr. Nico Lachmann from the Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology, and Neonatology at Hannover Medical School (MHH) has developed a method for efficiently producing macrophages in medium-sized bioreactors from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) for research purposes.

Yesterday, the film Future Science was screened at the cinema of the Zeiss Planetarium in Berlin. Renowned researchers provided an overview of their scientific work in the fields of organoid models, organ-on-a-chip models, in vitro disease models, as well as 3D printing techniques, and assessed the current situation regarding the use and acceptance of these new methods.

In an open letter dated April 9 to the relevant ministers, the Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare (TVT) expressed its criticism of the plan to remove laboratory animals from the Animal Welfare Act and incorporate them into a separate animal experimentation law. 

In Future, on a shared campus in Berlin-Wedding, both, reseachers from Charité – University Medicine Berlin and from Technical University Berlin will conduct joint research on human model systems – without animals. On the new campus, approximately 33 early-career research groups with 150 early-career researchers from Charité and the Technical University Berlin will jointly research and develop effective therapies for diseases previously considered incurable.