Resources
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Ebooks, posters & papers
Browse our detailed Ebooks and brochures for topics including Mildness Matters and In vitro tests or look through PDFs of our papers and posters.
EBOOKS
POSTERS AND PAPERS
- Addressing animal welfare issues in fetal blood collection for FBS production
- Use of 3 Animal Product-Free Methods as Part of a Novel Integrated Approach to Skin Sensitisation Testing
- Adaptation of Human Cell Based Safety Tests to Animal Product-Free Conditions
- Development of an Animal Product-Free Acute Toxicity Screen
- Human Serum Lot Comparison for the animal-product-free adaptation of the h-CLAT method
- Preliminary assessment of defined serum-free medium in the h-CLAT method
- Effects of metabolism on cytotoxicity of cosmetically relevant compounds
- Effects of metabolism on cytotoxicity of a subset of cosmetically relevant compounds
- Antioxidant potential of active ingredients Case Study
- 3D Genotoxicity model for assessment of cosmetic formulations
- Predicting Acute Oral Toxicity using AcutoX, an Animal Product-free and Metabolically Relevant, Human Cell-based Test
Slide decks & webinars
Our webinars and slide decks visually guide you through our tests and topics.
SLIDE DECKS
- Replacing animal-derived-components in regulatory in vitro methods
- Advances in in vitro testing for regulatory compliance in the chemical industry
- Safer cosmetics through in vitro science
- Future gazing: Where next for in vitro testing?
- In vitro skin corrosion test methods
- Skin sensitisation and preservatives
- Guide to GARD skin sensitisation testing
VIDEOS AND WEBINARS
- Introduction to XCellR8
- Cruelty free cosmetic testing with The Body Shop
- XCellR8 and Lush celebrate 1000 tests
- Regulatory eye irritation test
- Human cell toxicity test
- Webinar: in vitro skin corrosion testing
- Webinar: Safer cosmetics through animal-free testing
- Animal-free testing: What we can and can’t (yet) do to ensure product safety
- Webinar: Guide to GARD skin sensitisation testing
- Video: How skin sensitisation tests work
- Video: Our chat with Cosmetics Business on the difference between “cruelty-free” and “animal-free”
- Webinar: Understand Mildness like Never Before
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is an assay?
Broadly speaking, assay is a scientific term that means test. It is often used by the pharmaceutical industry to describe the experimental procedure that quantitatively or qualitatively measures the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity (to get all Wikipedia about it!)
Can you perform an Ames test at your laboratory?
We don’t provide the Ames test, as it uses animal components. We do provide the BlueScreen assay, a genotoxicity test that covers all types of genotoxicity: anugens, clastogens, and mutagens.
Is XCellR8 GLP accredited?
When will I receive my final report?
We don’t use a Purchase Order system or else Purchase Orders take a long time to issue in my organisation. Can I still start my study?<br />
What do you need from me to start a test?
Latest News
A New Decision Tree for Acute Oral Toxicity
A new paper co-authored by XCellR8’s Dr. Tom Ward has set out a practical Decision Tree designed to help safety assessors determine when animal testing for acute oral toxicity is genuinely necessary. We were delighted to see its acceptance for publication in...
How Do You Know? A Short History of GLP
In the 1970s, one of the largest toxicology laboratories in the United States was found to have been fabricating safety data on an industrial scale. Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories ran studies underpinning regulatory approvals for pesticides, industrial chemicals and...
Collagen Boosting – The Claim Everyone Wants and How to Substantiate It
Collagen has become a central idea in anti-ageing skincare, and the framing around it has shifted. The industry now talks about "collagen banking": acting before collagen decline becomes visible rather than correcting it afterwards. In practice that means products...



