The team isolated 18 compounds, one of which was reported for the first time as a genuine natural product showing cytotoxic activity.

The Cell Biology and In vitro Toxicology group had a strong presence at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Toxicology in Basel on November 14th 2024.

Saskia Schmidt, PhD candidate in the Cell Biology and In vitro Toxicology Lab, is visiting the group of Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill at the MicroorganoLab in Tübingen for a four month work project.

We are facing a growing issue of pollution caused by microplastics in the air, water, and soil, highlighting the need for robust analytical methods to handle this problem. Microplastics are categorized as macro-, micro-, and nanoplastics, originating from primary sources (such as manufactured micro-sized plastics in cosmetics) and secondary sources…

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