At the today's 55th Seminar on Laboratory Animals and Animal Testing at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, alternative approachesto the handling of laboratory animals were discussed. A consortium of various German research institutions is pursuing the goal of establishing a nationwide online platform to support the placement of laboratory animals in the future. 

This year, a group of interesting winners has once again been honored with the prestigious LUSH Prize. They shared the total prize of £250,000 across the categories of science, education, public awareness, advocacy, and early-career researchers.

Together with other partners, Professor Stefan Dübel and Professor Michael Hust, researchers at the Technical University of Braunschweig, have received the “Replication Prize” from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The team was honored for its work, which improves the reproducibility of antibody experiments and avoids the use of animal testing.

A research team led by Dr. Margherita Yayio Turco from Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, based in Basel, has succeeded in replicating the menstrual cycle in vitro using organoids. The endometrial organoids can mimic the natural breakdown and regrowth of the uterine mucosa in response to hormones, making it possible to track how different cell types interact and regenerate tissue over time.