Dr. Julia Stubenbord is the new representative of the federal agency for animal protection in Baden-Württemberg. In an interview with"tierversuche verstehen", she reports that there are thoughts for an establishment of a Center for Collaborative Approach to Meta-Analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies (CAMARADES) in analogy to the German Cochrane Center at one of the Baden-Würtemberg's universities. Such kind of Center already exists in the UK. The aim of the Center is to investigate the transferability of animal experiments to humans, which would be a contribution towards the validity of animal experiments and the implementation of 3R.

Emulate, Inc., located in Boston, has been founded y the pioneers of the Organ-on-Chips technology at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. Emulate, Inc. announced today that it has received a research grant to use the company’s human Brain-Chip system and develop a fully automated research platform, to conduct experiments on the International Space Station.

Xell AG has developed a medium without animal components, specifically designed for first steps in the development of cell lines. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has supported the project from 2012 to 2015 with with nearly euros 370,000 from the funding initiative "KMU-innovativ: Biotechnologie" ("SME innovative: biotechnology").

The Swiss company AlveoliX has launched a lung-on-a chip array in multiwell plate format. The chip consists of 12 individual lung-on-a-chips.