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At the beginning of July, the Dutch parliament passed an amendment that will phase out funding for one of Europe's largest primate research centers in its current form over the next five years. Instead, the development of animal-free methods will be accelerated and testing on monkeys will be phased out in the long term.

In the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is launching the Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI). It will bring together various data resources to investigate possible contributions to the causes of autism - without animal testing.

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed a model made from human breast milk cells in the laboratory. Their aim is to understand how mother's milk is produced in the breast - an area of female biology that has hardly been researched to date.