At the beginning of July, the Dutch parliament passed an amendment that will phase out funding for one of Europe's largest primate research centers in its current form over the next five years. Instead, the development of animal-free methods will be accelerated and testing on monkeys will be phased out in the long term.

The National Institutes of Health announced on Monday that the biomedical agency would no longer award funding to new grant proposals solely relying on animal testing. 

In the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI). It will bring together various data resources to investigate possible contributions to the causes of autism - without animal testing. 

At the Max Delbrück Center, the “Center for AI-Accelerated Molecular Innovations in Medicine” (AI2M) is being established. The Helmholtz Association has approved 30.8 million euros for this project. The researchers will use new technologies to develop AI-based strategies for tailored treatment and prevention.

Zurich: Breast tissue in a petri dish

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Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed a model made from human breast milk cells in the laboratory. Their aim is to understand how mother's milk is produced in the breast - an area of female biology that has hardly been researched to date.

Long Night of Science in Berlin: hands-on experiment with organ-on-a-chip

The Technical University Berlin is presenting a varied program for young and old with experiments and hands-on activities in its 28 science buildings. For example, visitors can assemble organ chips and try out magnetic cell sorting.

PEPPER, the Paris-based public-private partnership for the validation of non-animal methods for testing endocrine disruptors, is once again in the process of selecting new methods for validation. The deadline is August 31, 2025.

The German Heart Center at Charité (DHZC) has successfully implanted the world's first heart valve prosthesis made from the patient's own tissue, which could eliminate the need for animal-derived valves.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg, Germany, have collaborated with scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden and Toronto University in Canada to map the infection pathways of aggressive Shigella bacteria in human intestinal organoids.

Organ-on-a-chip manufacturer Hesperos Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration with Psilera, a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for difficult-to-treat neurological diseases such as frontotemporal dementia.

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