Thursday, October 19, 2006

New Research To Cut Animal Testing / Medical News Today, 16 Oct 2006

http://digbig.com/4njxg
"Researchers at The University of Manchester have been awarded 130,000 pounds to develop new techniques to reduce the need for animals in drug testing. [..] The funding - awarded by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) - will help the scientists establish new genotoxicity tests using cultured human liver cells. "