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ECVAM offers access to its laboratories
Tuesday, 18 February 2025 14:37The European Validation Authority EURL ECVAM offers users open access to its High-Throughput Testing laboratory.
Applied research in vitro: suitability of ASOs for therapy in rare diseases proven
Monday, 17 February 2025 16:01Using heart organoids, researchers from the Genomic Medicine Center and Children's Mercy Research Institute, the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City have demonstrated the efficacy of their antisense oligonucleotides in patients.
Basic research in vitro: environmental factors can influence brain development
Monday, 17 February 2025 14:13What specifically happens when developing nerve cells are exposed to “chronic” stress has been investigated by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich using cell models of the developing brain.
Good news for animals: syphilis pathogen can be cultivated without animal testing
Friday, 14 February 2025 14:56For research purposes, the syphilis bacterium (Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum) could so far only be propagated in laboratory animals, especially rabbits. US researchers have now developed a method that enables the pathogen to be cultivated in cell cultures.
Constance: EU funding for AI developmental biology platform
Monday, 10 February 2025 11:52With his AI-supported platform “EmbryoNet-AI”, Professor Dr. Patrick Müller, an expert in developmental biology at the Department of Biology at University of Constance, aims to make drug research more efficient: Faster, cheaper and more accurate tests should replace animal testing.
REMINDER: only one week left for applications for EPAA Student grants 2025
Thursday, 06 February 2025 12:40The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students and young scientists with outstanding work in the field of alternative approaches for attending a high-profile scientific event. The deadline for participation in MPS World summit as well as for the SETAC congress is 14 February 2025.
United States: Senators push to reduce animal testing in $5.5 billion research sector
Wednesday, 05 February 2025 10:24A group of Republican and Democratic senators has reintroduced a bill urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt modern alternatives to animal testing.
ESAC: Two in vitro genotoxicity tests positively evaluated
Tuesday, 04 February 2025 14:28At the end of January, an ESAC statement was published following an evaluation of the in vitro test methods “Reconstructed human Skin (RS) Comet” and “Micronucleus (RSMN)” for the assessment of genotoxicity. The assessments appear promising.
Charité 3R Service Platform improves access to human biosamples for research
Thursday, 30 January 2025 17:34The Volkswagen Foundation is funding the development of the service platform “Primary Tissue Pipeline” for two years. The service platform facilitates access to primary human tissue for researchers at Charité/BIH, thus improving research opportunities at Charité.
Personalized mini-organs could speed up treatments of rare diseases
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 13:30A study published in Nature suggests that lab-grown organoids can help predict the treatment effects of genetic drugs made from RNA for people with rare diseases.
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