News
Dental implants: treatment of inflammation with electrical current
Wednesday, 09 March 2011 16:27Scientists from the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of the ETH Zurich have developed an electrolysis procedure, adapted from a technique normally used for water purification, for the treatment of peri-implantitis.
Tissue-engineered urethras
Wednesday, 09 March 2011 16:25A team of doctors from Mexico and the United States has been successful in engineering artificial urethras using the body´s own cells. The urethras are fully functional six years after transplant. The structure and function are nearly the same as naturally grown tissue.
A new type of stem cell test without animal experiments
Tuesday, 08 March 2011 16:21Scientists from the RWTH Aachen in cooperation with the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel (CAU) and the Scripps Research Institute (San Diego, USA) published a new stem cell research method without animal use in the magazine Nature Methods (6.3.11).
Heart attack genes detected by GWAS method
Tuesday, 08 March 2011 16:19A more and more common method will help scientists to identify 13 risk genes, whereupon the influence of genes which cause a coronary heart disease could be greater than expected by now.
Workshop: Computer Simulations and the Changing Face of Scientific Experimentation
Thursday, 03 March 2011 16:18The workshop intends philosophical and historical discussion about the relation between computer simulations and experimentation.
ECHA: request for information on existing vertebrate tests
Monday, 28 February 2011 16:12To ensure that the best use has been made of existing information, particularly information on existing vertebrate tests, the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) publishes all test proposals involving vertebrate animals, for endpoints specified in Annexes IX and X under REACH, on this webpage before the testing is carried out.
Artificial, automated human skin model from IGB
Friday, 11 February 2011 16:10From the end of March on human skin modells shall literally be produced on a conveyor belt by IGB in Stuttgart. At first, the scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) want to produce 5.000 thumbnail seized skin models per month, fully automated and ready for dispatch.
Rhineland-Palatinate promotes cooperation project for development of alternatives to animal experiments
Monday, 07 February 2011 16:08The Rhineland-Palatinate's Ministry of the Environment is funding a two-year cooperation project between the Institute of Human Genetics at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the Institute for Biological interfaces at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the objective of which is to develop alternatve methods to animal experiments.
Alternative to animal experiments in cosmetic research
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 16:06January of this year saw the launch of the research project DETECTIVE, funded with more than eight millinon euros and led by Professor Dr. Jürgen Hescheler of the University of Cologne. DETECTIVE is a project of the 6th EU Research Framework Programme in collaboration with the COLIPA (European Cosmetic Association). The project's oblective is to help ascertain endpoints (study objectives) and bio-markers for the long-term toxicity examinations with the assistance in vitro systems.
Unilever no longer conducts animal experiments for teas or tea products
Tuesday, 01 February 2011 16:04The world largest producer of tea, e.g. Lipton tea, Unilever, has announced that it has stopped all animal experiments for tea or tea ingredients, effective immediately, unless required by law.
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