Lipid vesicles to replace mouse experiments

Friday, January 18, 2013 - 07:01 in Biology & Nature

Researchers from ETH Zurich have filed a patent application for a method to test the biological activity of one of the strongest toxins known, the botulinum neurotoxin. If the procedure is adopted by the pharmaceutical industry, it could save the lives of more than half a million mice per year.

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