Description: Celescreen develops an innovative process of assessing toxicity in systemic organism using an invertebrate, the worm Caenorhabditis elegans
Enabling a wide usage of C. elegans as a whole organism model in drug and molecule development
Novel needs are raising in an ever-changing world rendering C. elegans -based toxicity screening essential for several industries.
In cosmetics, societal pressure ended to the ban of animal-tested cosmetic ingredients in Europe in 2013 (EC Regulation 1223/2009 on cosmetics) or at least to Reduction, Refinement and Replacement (the 3Rs) of animal testing. Alternative methods such as cell-based assays will not provide as accurate results regarding genotoxicity, reprotoxicity, systemic toxicity. This is where CeleScreen can help the cosmetics industry to effectively assess the toxicity of novel ingredients for, e.g. , anti-ageing, skin