{"id":2684,"date":"2018-02-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/in-silico-will-save-millions-of-laboratory-animals\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T07:25:36","slug":"in-silico-will-save-millions-of-laboratory-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/in-silico-will-save-millions-of-laboratory-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"In silico will save millions of laboratory animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Dr Agnieszka Gajewicz, a specialist of chemoinformatics from the University of Gda\u0144sk, became a laureate of the scholarship program L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women and Science. She was awarded for elaborating methods of assessing the risks of using nanoparticles in medicine. Chemoinformatics is a new field of knowledge combining mathematics, computer science, chemistry and theoretical physics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A researcher from the University of Gda\u0144sk deals with so-called cross-cutting estimation, which is one of the most important <em>in silico<\/em> methods. It uses IT techniques to evaluate the activity and properties of new chemical compounds and technologies as well as the risk of their use. Also it selects compounds suitable for drugs. <em>In silico<\/em> methods are cheaper and faster than traditional ones and they eliminate \u00a0experiments on animals. Such approach can reduce the number of animals used for testing up to 50% in Europe (Kp)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naukawpolsce.pap.pl\/aktualnosci\/news%2C28077%2Cniebezpieczne-zwiazki-okiem-chemika.html\">http:\/\/naukawpolsce.pap.pl\/aktualnosci\/news%2C28077%2Cniebezpieczne-zwiazki-okiem-chemika.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Agnieszka Gajewicz, a specialist of chemoinformatics from the University of Gda\u0144sk, became a laureate of the scholarship program L&#8217;Or\u00e9al-UNESCO For Women and Science. She was awarded for elaborating methods of assessing the risks of using nanoparticles in medicine. Chemoinformatics is a new field of knowledge combining mathematics, computer science, chemistry and theoretical physics. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}