Systematic review: Performance of preclinical models in predicting drug-induced liver injury in humans
A systematic review found that preclinical studies using animals fail to predict a drug’s potential to cause adverse health effects, despite being mandatory in safety and efficacy…
Continue readingVaccine testing without animal testing?
Dutch, Bilthoven based, Intravacc, a global leader in translational research and development of viral and bacterial vaccines, today announced the publication of a study in Scientific Reports on alternatives…
Continue readingThe convalescent sera option for containing COVID-19
With a vaccine for COVID-19 still a long way from being realized, Johns Hopkins University is working to revive a century-old blood-derived treatment in hopes of slowing the spread…
Continue readingSmoking robot and lung-on-a-chip to study cigarette smoke-induced lung diseases
Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have developed an animal-free science innovation platform by combining a robotic smoking machine with a lung-on-a-chip technology to fully and realistically…
Continue readingBook review: Rigor mortis
Scientific research should not be attached to particular dogmas or paradigms but, on the contrary, change its methods according to the results obtained. In his book “Rigor Mortis”, the…
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