As the British animal rights organization RSPCA reports on LinkedIn, the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Andrew Griffith, has announced in the British Parliament that the government intends to publish a new plan by the summer that aims to accelerate the development, validation and application of technologies and methods to reduce animal testing.

Emma Hurst, Member of the Australian Parliament in New South Wales, has introduced a bill to amend the Animal Research Act 2023 into Parliament. The aim is to ban the severely stressful forced swim tests as well as smoke inhalation tests on rodents. The decisions have already had an impact on research in many Australian institutions. For instance, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia have banned researchers from using the forced swimming test.

This year, the state of Baden-Württemberg is once again supporting the development of alternative and complementary methods to animal testing.

In order to create a customized form of cartilage tissue, which has always been difficult to date, scientists at Technical University Vienna are pursuing a new approach using a precision 3D printing process.