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Altertox with new annual program 2018
Thursday, 01 February 2018 13:06July: LIVe2018 congress in Nice
Tuesday, 23 January 2018 12:44Altertox Academy (former CAAT Academy) and Epithelix are organising a 2-days “LIVe2018 - Lung In Vitro event for innovative & predictive models” congress in 2018.
One Transcription Factor is enough to Develop Oligodendrocytes
Monday, 22 January 2018 19:40In cooperation with scientists from Minneapolis, the Netherlands and Málaga, a researcher team from the Stem Cell Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven led by Prof. Catherine Verfaillie succeeded in producing oligodendrocytes from human induced pluripotent stem cells by an overexpression of the transcription factor SOX10.
Boston: New anti-inflammatory drug characterized with blood-vessel-on-a-chip
Thursday, 18 January 2018 11:10Scientists from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University in Boston have developed a thrombosis model on the basis of a blood-vessel-on-a-chip model to investigate cellular processes involved in treating vascular inflammation with a platelet aggregation inhibitor.
Berlin: University financing contracts signed
Wednesday, 17 January 2018 10:04According to the Berliner Morgenpost`s current issue, the financing contracts between the Senate of Berlin and the 11 state universities as well as the Charité were signed yesterday. In this program, the new centre for alternatives to animal testing will be provided with euros 8,5 millions.
IIVS and BASF collaborate to distribute test method to replace animal testing in China
Tuesday, 16 January 2018 12:34The Institute for In Vitro Sciences, Inc. (IIVS) announced a collaboration with BASF to import a non-animal, cell based, safety test - called LuSens - into China. LuSens is used to test chemicals on skin sensitization.
EU Commission: Horizon 2020 be supposed not be cut back despite Brexit
Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:10All Commissioners have unanimously agreed that neither the research budget nor the Erasmus students budget should be affect by cuts in the next funding period 2021-28. In contrast to this, however, other departments such as agriculture are to be slightly reduced as well as the contributions of the member states are to be increased.
Technical University Berlin: Lecture on Sepsis Research with Organ-on-Chip Technology
Monday, 08 January 2018 20:04On 17 April, the winner of the Federal Animal Welfare Research Prize 2017, Dr. Alexander Mosig from the University Hospital Jena, will give a lecture on sepsis research with organ-on-chip systems and introduce developed liver and intestine models on the chip.
Thuringia's Animal Welfare Award considers alternatives to animal experiments in the future
Wednesday, 03 January 2018 19:33The state of Thuringia is expanding its award categories: from 2019 it is praising the state's animal welfare prize for practical research work, which aims to replace animal experiments, reduce the number of animals used in experiments or reduce the pain for laboratory animals during experiments.
China opens Non-Animal Test Laboratory
Thursday, 21 December 2017 10:56The chinese regulatory institute ZJIFDC has opened a laboratory for animal-free methods. In opening is traced to the collaboration with the Institute for In Vitro Sciences from Gaithersburg, US.
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