The Use of Human 3D Reconstructed Airway Cultures for Tobacco Product Evaluation: Precision Low-Volume Exposures at the Apical Site

With a mandate to evaluate the dynamics of pulmonary exposure to inhaled materials such as tobacco-based products, researchers are employing complex,…

Trends in Regenerative Medicine: Repigmentation in Vitiligo Through Melanocyte Stem Cell Mobilization

Vitiligo is the most frequent human pigmentary disorder, characterized by progressive autoimmune destruction of mature epidermal melanocytes. Of the current…

EPA Announces Start of Voluntary Pilot Program to Reduce Animal Testing

On December 20, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)announced the start of a pilot program to evaluate the usefulness…

Dutch Government Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Safety Testing by 2025

PETA UK and PETA Netherlands staff attended a meeting in Hague last week at which Dutch Secretary of State for…

Director of CFDA, National Institute for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) Visits IIVS

Composed of 11 technical institutes, the NIFDC is responsible for the registration and post market surveillance of drugs, traditional Chinese…

IIVS e-News – December 2016

First Non-Animal Test Method Accepted by China FDA

IIVS and stakeholders around the world welcomed the announcement last month by the CFDA that data from a non-animal test…

PETA Int’l Science Consortium Announces Chance to Win a $100,000 Award

PETA is accepting proposals to award a VITROCELL® exposure system—valued at up to $100,000—to researchers who will use it to…

What Does China’s Approval of the First Contemporary Non-Animal Testing Method Mean for Cruelty Free Cosmetics?

IIVS’ work with the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) and its subsidiary body, the National Institute for Food and…

Decoding and Modulating the Color of Human Skin

The constitutive color of human skin varies widely across the globe, from the very pale as in Celtic skin to…

IIVS Holds Workshop for University of Maryland Students

IIVS hosted its fourth annual toxicology workshop for students from the University of Maryland College Park chapter of the Biomedical…

Video: The 3T3 Neutral Red Uptake Phototoxicity Test — Chinese