by Minty Hand | Jun 8, 2021 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News, XCellR8 News
After receiving a 70% research grant from Innovate UK, we have started an innovative project to find a scientifically and ethically advanced test method that’s highly predictive of human acute oral toxicity and relevant to our real-life exposure to chemicals. What is...
by Minty Hand | Apr 29, 2021 | In Vitro Safety, XCellR8 News
Dr Fiona Jacobs joined the XCellR8 team in October 2017 as Study Director. She looks after most of the non-GLP studies that our clients ask for, focusing primarily on in vitro genotoxicity tests using the BlueScreenTM method, adapted to use animal-free reagents. We...
by Minty Hand | Apr 15, 2021 | Animal-free testing, Events, News
Dr Carol Treasure was recently invited to be a guest speaker for MSc Cosmetic Science students at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. The virtual webinar, centred around creating safe and effective cosmetics using animal-free science, focussing...
by Minty Hand | Mar 17, 2021 | Compliance & regulation, News
Ana Quevedo, Technical Sales Manager, and Chris Longmore, Scientific Account Manager, recently attended the CTPA open webinar on UK regulations for cosmetics. Although the Cosmetic and Chemical industries are currently faced with a number of changes, there are many...
by Minty Hand | Feb 17, 2021 | Animal-free testing, News, XCellR8 News
Prize will help laboratory adapt existing OECD Test Guidelines to animal-product-free conditions We are thrilled to have been awarded £100K of funding to carry out a six-month proof-of-concept study to develop in vitro tests free from animal-derived reagents. The...
