Prof. Thierry Soldati and his team from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Geneva infected amoebae and amoeboid-mobile slime fungus cells to test new antibiotics and to reduce animal testing with mice.

According to Dr. Peter Theunissen from the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board (CBG), in the foreseeable future, much fewer animals are used for the evaluation of the developmental toxicology effects of drugs. On behalf of the government, the CBG monitors the quality of pharmaceuticals and is involved in the preparation of guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry.

Scientists from the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg (JMU) succeeded a step further to complex organoids with blood vessels, immune cells, and connective tissue.

For the first time, a German-American team of scientists has succeeded in isolating and investigating beta-amyloid fibrils from the human brain. These protein fibers are suspected of causing Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy.