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Reducing animal suffering in cancer research with fetal bovine serum-free cell culture models

For decades, human cancer cell lines have been indispensable models for cancer research, already replacing a significant number of animal experiments. However, the use of fetal bovine serum (FBS) in ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Future of Animals, Cells, Models, and Systems in Research, Development, Education, and Testing: Proceedings of a Symposium

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A black licorice compound slashes gut inflammation and cell death in IBD models and animals

A new study published in Stem Cell Reports demonstrates how a human stem cell-derived model of the intestine can be used to identify potential therapies for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ...
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Natural component from licorice alleviates inflammatory bowel disease in stem cell-based model and in animals

Representative immunofluorescence images showing the intestinal epithelium of a murine colitis model treated with either PBS or glycyrrhizin, adapted from Figure 2F. Cleaved Caspace-3 (red), EpCAM ...
Nature

Why simply ending animal testing isn’t the answer in biomedical research

K. C. Kent Lloyd is a professor in the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, director of the Mouse Biology Program and NAMs Testing Center and associate director of the Comprehensive Cancer ...