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Berlin: Cellbricks on the way to printed organs
Monday, 26 August 2024 13:31An explanatory film provides insights into the technology of 3D tissue printing using the technology of Berlin-based company Cellbricks (https://cellbricks.com/) as an example. Currently, organ-like systems can be printed in miniature format, e.g. for drug testing.
Heidelberg: biocompatible materials for 3D printing from microalgae
Wednesday, 21 August 2024 13:53An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Eva Blasco, a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials (IMSEAM) at Heidelberg University, has succeeded for the first time in using raw materials obtained from microalgae to produce inks for printing complex biocompatible 3D microstructures.
Berlin: Einstein Center 3R launches new platform “Understanding alternatives”
Monday, 19 August 2024 11:41The Einstein Center 3R is a Berlin science initiative aiming to develop alternative methods to animal testing. The authors want to provide a differentiated picture of the current state of research in an understandable way using examples to give an insight into daily research.
CALL FOR APPLICATION: Descroix-Vernier EthicScience (DVES) Prize 2025
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 15:16With a total endowment of 110,000 euros rewarding 3 categories, the DVES prize is one of the best endowed prizes in Europe entirely dedicated to the most advanced, most convincing scientific and technological knowledge for alternatives to animal experiments.
Hope for horseshoe crab: synthetic alternative for endotoxin testing
Tuesday, 30 July 2024 14:30In its Pharmacopoeia, the United States has recognized synthetic alternatives to the blood of horseshoe crab. This allows synthetic alternatives such as the recombinant factor C test to be used as evidence for the quantification of endotoxins in medical products.
Saarbrücken: HIPS researchers develop innovative model for drug testing against hair follicle infections
Monday, 29 July 2024 12:33Researchers from the Department of Drug Delivery across Biological Barriers at Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) have developed a hair follicle model for testing the effectiveness of new drug candidates against relevant pathogens.
India ends tests on animals for veterinary vaccines
Friday, 26 July 2024 10:25The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) has made a change to the Indian Pharmacopoeia with effect from July 1, 2024 and has discontinued the Target Animal Batch Safety Test (TABST) since the effective date.
USA: Brain waves reveal neural circuitry of creative thinking
Thursday, 25 July 2024 13:23A researcher team headed by Prof. Ben Shofty from University of Utah and Assistant Prof. Eleonora Bartoli from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston has investigated the way different areas of the brain work together to enable creative thinking.
Eawag: AI can predict fish toxicity
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 12:17Researchers 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.
Autoantibodies responsible for the severity of infections
Wednesday, 24 July 2024 11:00Using 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).
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