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Six InVitro+Jobs scientists nominated for LUSH-Prize
Sunday, 16 October 2016 14:46In the category "science" and "training", several scientists are qualified for the prize of the British cosmetics producer LUSH. In this year, 55 nominations from 21 countries have been selected. £250,000 prize money (equivalent to just 278,000 euros) will be shared by the winners to support the ending of animal experiments in research, industry and training. The winners will be awarded during a conference on 11 November in London.
Alzheimer's research in vitro: beta amyloids leds to protein blockade in mitochondria
Sunday, 16 October 2016 14:13Researcher from the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Bonn University led by Professor Wolfgang Voos have decrypted a new mechanism which possibly contributes to the development of the Alzheimer´s disease. Thus, the beta amyloid depositions are not responsible for the dying of nerve cells but they prevent the supply of important proteins into the mitochondria.
CAAT Academy Training Sessions Program 2017
Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:09Next year, nine different training events are organized by the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) Europe. topics are from organ-on-a-chip applications to in vitro eye and skin models, in vitro lung and kidney models, prediction models for liver toxicity tests, in vitro-in vivo extrapolation training and in silico tool applications for risk assessments.
Pain Research: Diabetic neuropathy in vitro
Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:36The new research consortium "NeuRoWeg" wants to establish a stem cell-derived cell system for basic research on pain and industrial drug discovery. As an example a model should be used to investigate diabetic neuropathy.
Green Party demand for database to avoid animal test duplications
Thursday, 29 September 2016 09:38Lower Saxony's Agriculture Minister Christian Meyer wants decrease the number of animal experiments by means of an European database.
Financial support for astrocyte coculture in the Petri Dish
Tuesday, 27 September 2016 11:30In the following three years, in vitro researcher Prof. Marcel Leist, head of the Doerenkamp-Zbinden Chair of in vitro Toxicology and Biomedicine at the University Konstanz, will recieve funding to establish an important brain cell type in the petri dish which is called astrocytes. This will be a next step on the way to replace animal experiments in biomedical research.
European Court: No deviation from sales ban on cosmetics tested on animals
Thursday, 22 September 2016 11:57Three British companies wanted to sell cosmetics in europe that they had been tested on animals for the Asian market (China and Japan). However, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed the existing sales prohibition on cosmetics tested on animals in Europe that came into practise on March 11, 2013.
ECHA: Advice on test guideline for fish embryo acute toxicity test
Wednesday, 21 September 2016 14:43ECHA has published advice on how to use the OECD test guideline on fish embryo acute toxicity (FET) test under REACH. The document describes the scope and the limitations when using the FET test.
Baden-Württemberg supports three projects to replace animal experiments
Monday, 19 September 2016 21:28As the only state Baden-Württemberg annually supports the development of alternatives to animal experiments with 400,000 euros. In this round, three scientists are promoted for their development of in vitro methods and another project will be financed to improve welfare conditions of mice.
German-American Virus research Team honored with Lasker Award
Thursday, 15 September 2016 08:29The virologists Prof. Ralf Bartenschlager from the Heidelberg University and two American colleagues will be awarded the highest medical and scientific award of the USA, the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. The award is regarded as the unofficial "American Nobel Prize in Medicine". The scientists will be honored for their long-lasting research on breeding of hepatitis C virus in cell culture systems.
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