In the project "Spatially resolved cellular and molecular drivers of cardiac remodeling in healthy and failing", a British-German team of researchers wants to analyze thousands of individual cells from different areas of the heart with the most modern methods to understand the heart at a molecular level.

For the first time, a toxicity test with gill cells from fish, developed by EAWAG from Dübendorf, Switzerland, have been ISO-certified. The test serves to determine acute toxicity of water samples and chemicals to fish. This is a Milestone, because so far there was a lack of recognized alternatives to experiments with living fish.

For the 25th time, the Minister of Social Affairs Heike Werner (Linke) is awarding the Thuringian Animal Protection Prize. The prize is awarded in three categories: charitable animal protection, species-appropriate husbandry of farm animals as well as development of alternative methods to animal experiments. In addition, the award of the animal protection research prize will take place for the first time.

Systems biology approaches allow a comprehensive view of an organism as a whole. In order to further strengthen the field of systems biology in Europe and to establish sustainable research cooperations between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, the funding institutions from the three European countries have now relaunched a successful guideline and published it under the name "InnoSysTox-Moving - Innovative Systemic Toxicology as an Alternative to Animal Testing - Towards Application".