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New Plant-based Drug Testing System to Help Cut Down on Animal Testing

2021-12-06

New Plant-based Drug Testing System to Help Cut Down on Animal Testing

In the fall of 2019, Aleksandra Predeina, then a first-year Master’s student at ITMO came to Vladimir Vinogradov, head of ITMO’s SCAMT Institute and expressed a desire to make an art & science research project. Two and a half years later, this collaboration has resulted in a unique testing system for nanopharmaceuticals that will make it possible to significantly cut down on animal testing....