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Exploring alternatives to animal testing in drug discovery

Drug Target Review

Animal testing plays a significant role in pre-clinical research and therefore requires the use of millions of animals. million scientific procedures involving live animals were carried out in 2020. million scientific procedures involving live animals were carried out in 2020. In Britain, 2.88 In Britain, 2.88

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

To deliver CHARM throughout the brain, the team collaborated with scientists in the lab of Ben Deverman , senior director of vector engineering at the Broad and a co-author of the study. They used an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) that crosses the blood-brain barrier after intravenous administration. Online June 27, 2024.

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Streamlining the path from lab to market with 3D bioprinting

Drug Target Review

These models can be used for more efficient and effective drug testing early in the development process, potentially reducing the need for animal testing and later-stage human trials that are both costly and time-consuming.

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

These rats, known as AA or P-lines, serve as animal models of alcoholism, exhibiting high alcohol-seeking behavior, withdrawal symptoms, and a predisposition to co-abuse ethanol and nicotine. Of course, AA and P-line rats are not the only research animals bred for the study of disease. It would be engineering,” he says.

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FDA’s New Draft Guidance on 510(k) Implant Devices: What You Need to Know

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

image artifacts), radiopacity testing or other suitable imaging compatibility testing for localization of a device, and assessment of risks associated with exposure of the implant to other imaging exams and radiotherapy devices, as appropriate.

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Human neuronal cells: possibilities in drug safety testing

Drug Target Review

This shift occurred following implementation of the Comprehensive in Vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) initiative in 2013 and extensive testing of hiPSC-cardiomyocytes with known proarrhythmic drugs. 1-4 This approach saves time, money, and resources, and ultimately leads to safer medicines going forward to the clinic.

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Rapid delivery of toxicological material

Drug Target Review

Advances in new technologies such as engineer transposase-based semi-targeted transgene integration, which integrates the genes of interest into highly active regions of the host genome, have enabled the generation of consistently and predictably high-yielding cell lines, as well as, supporting rapid stable pool generation.