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ICB news, Cell biology

Saskia Schmidt wins Science Slam Award at Next-Gen Organ-on-Chip 2025 for AOP Chip Presentation

Her three-minute talk got the audience's attention by drawing similarities between liver fibrosis and football!

ICB news, Cell biology

Do propylene glycol ethers pose a toxicity risk to the nervous system?

The Cell Biology and In Vitro Toxicology group recently published the results of their investigation in the journal Toxicology

ICB news, Cell biology

Lena Mungenast completes PhD at the Department for Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK)

Lena obtained her Dr. rer nat with a magna cum laudae for her work on neural regeneration after spinal cord injury, supervised in part by Laura Suter-Dick

ICB news, BioInterfaces

Welcome to Timon Flathmann

Timon joined the ICB on January 15th.  Find out about his research activities and interests here.

ICB news, Cell biology

Laura Suter-Dick chairs session on implementation of New Approach Methodologies

On December 13, 2024 in Bern, Prof. Dr. Laura Suter-Dick presented state-of-the-art methodologies and chaired a session at the 3RCC symposium on Successfully Implementing New Approach Methodologies: Practical Applications in Drug Development and Clinical Practice.

ICB news, Cell biology

Using 3D HepaRG cultures to assess hepatic metabolism

The in vitro model helps close the knowledge gap in metabolism and systemic toxicity of glycol ethers and may support the safety assessment of solvents with relevant occupational exposures.

ICB news, nanoLab

Sustainability in the laboratories at the FHNW School of Life Sciences

The study on Sustainability in HLS Laboratory Operations aims to reduce energy and resource use in the labs significantly, via measures that can be seamlessly integrated into everyday lab work.

ICB news, Cell biology, Molecular Nanotechnology

New publication about enzyme immobilization on nanoparticles

The Molecular nanotechnology group, supported by the Cell biology group, published their work in the journal RSC Nanoscale Advances.

ICB news, Cell biology

New anthroposophic medicine for the holistic treatment of cancer

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

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