The federal government is funding the "Cellzero Meat" project with about 1.2 million euros. Cellzero Meat is a scientific network that is looking for alternatives to conventional meat production. The goal is to overcome the obstacles that have not yet been solved. To this end, the researchers want to close gaps in knowledge so that meat from the laboratory can be produced without antibiotics and in an animal-friendly way.

This time, two prestigious research awards from the Center for Alternative to Animal Testing (CAAT) at the Bloomberg School of Medicine in Baltimore go to two German teams for their commitment to non-animal methods.

Biomedical scientist Prof. Maike Frye takes over the chair on 3R methods at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). With her Vascular Biology group, the scientist is developing novel hydrogel techniques for culture systems of human cells. The aim is to recreate tissue environments of vascular endothelial cells. 

At the end of December 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the "FDA Modernization Act 2.0." Under this law, it is no longer necessary to test the safety of drugs on animals in order to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the government agency that oversees food, drugs, and medical devices. This could initiate a significant reduction in animal testing after more than 80 years of safety testing of drugs on animals.