The chemical company BASF SE has provided U.S. based Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) with equipment critical to replacing the use of animals for eye irritation testing of certain chemicals. IIVS will place the units at each of its newly developed training laboratories in Xi'an, Beijing, and Guangzhou, China.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to collaborate with European researchers in developing new toxicology tools that advance non-animal based safety science and health research.

Scientists from Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Saarland University have unraveled the physical properties of the lung mucus. They found out that in lung mucus a stiff gel scaffold seperates large fluid-filled pores from each other and prevents the movement of  nanoparticles via pore boundaries.

At the 18th of October the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) presented about 240,000 signatures from the No Cruel Cosmetics campaign to the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament. The aim is to end the import and sale of cosmetics tested on animals in Europe. InVitroJobs was also resented.