The state of Baden-Württemberg is funding three projects as part of its "Development of replacement and supplementary methods to animal experiments" funding program. A total of 200,000 euros is available, which will be divided among three research projects. The funding is announced annually.

Physicians and bioinformaticians at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich report using machine learning to develop a method for predicting how individual cells will respond to specific treatments. This should enable more accurate diagnoses and therapies.

Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill from Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute in Reutlingen (MNI) together with colleagues want to use a female hormone model to find out how metabolism, immune system and dynamic resilience are related in pre- and post-menopausal women.

The "traffic light coalition" consisting of the Green Party, Liberals and Social democrats, has earmarked one million euros in the budget for 2024 for the development and initial implementation of a strategy to reduce animal testing. Another million has been reserved for subsequent budgets.