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From laboratory mouse to computer mouse

Mark Coles, Paul Kaye, Jon Timmis, Jon Pitchford, Anne Thuery, Olivier Preham, Marko Raseta

  • 26 September 2014
    5pm - 9pm

  • Yorkshire Museum
    Hospitium (map)

  • FREE admission
    No booking required

  • Wheelchair accessible

Event details

Work is being funded at York to find ways of reducing, refining and replacing the use of animals in medical-related research and this exhibition will showcase a few current examples.

Normally new medicines are tested for safety and effectiveness in mammals like mice. We will explain,  using special bug and immune cell robots, a touch screen simulator and other hands-on activities, how we are developing an artificial immune system to try to achieve a more efficient and animal free method of screening new drugs.  Also, a new and exciting type of mathematical modelling used in toxicology will be on display.