by Sam Thistleton | Nov 18, 2021 | Animal-free testing, Compliance & regulation, In Vitro Safety, News
Picture the scene: two minutes to go until your next video call and you’re stripping off the oversized hoodie, buttoning up your work shirt, flattening down your ‘bed head’, maybe reaching for the lip gloss, but, DEFINITELY, checking for that pesky...
by Sam Thistleton | Oct 25, 2021 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News
In this blog we ask does it have to be an ‘all or nothing’ approach to animal-free testing? Here at XCellR8 we dare to tread where sometimes regulators fear to go. Our work focuses on pursuing the science that will end the reliance on animal data once and for all. No...
by Sam Thistleton | Oct 15, 2021 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News
The blog this week talks about the reasons why animal testing is considered out-dated from a scientific perspective, and the advantages of the modern animal-free alternatives. An article in Food and Chemical Toxicology all the way back in 1985 questions the scientific...
by Sam Thistleton | Jun 20, 2021 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News
Following our post, Focus on eye irritation, published late last year, we are excited to announce our new regulatory in-vitro safety test, Ocular Irritection® (OECD TG 496). This macromolecular test method provides an equivalent level of scientific data and regulatory...
by Sam Thistleton | Jun 17, 2021 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News, XCellR8 News
GLP laboratory adapts existing OECD Test Guidelines to animal-product-free conditions Earlier this year, we announced XCELLR8 wins £100K funding in the 2020 CRACK IT Challenges competition for a six-month proof-of-concept study to develop in vitro tests free from...
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...
