by Minty Hand | Jul 6, 2023 | Animal-free testing, News
Cruelty-free and animal-product-free: What’s the difference? It’s widely accepted that animal testing means carried out either in vivo (performed or taking place in a living organism) or ex vivo (directly taken from a living organism) and that in vitro (in...
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 | Oct 7, 2021 | Animal-free testing, News
We’re all comfortable with the fact that vegan means animal-free, so logic says that vegan equals cruelty-free, right? Not necessarily! In this week’s blog we look at the terminology used by companies to help consumers ask the right questions and make the right choice...
by Carol Treasure | Dec 16, 2020 | Animal-free testing, In Vitro Safety, News
This photo shows human skin cells (dermal fibroblasts) growing in our lab at XCellR8. This isn’t just an ordinary fibroblast culture – it’s more special than you may realise at first glance! Read on to discover why…. The majority of cell cultures in labs around the...
