As several British ministries announced in a joint press release, animal testing in the UK is to be replaced by the introduction of animal-free methods. To this end, the country is providing £75 million (just over €85 million).

The University of Utrecht is currently conducting a survey among young researchers who work with or are interested in animal-free methods (New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)).

State-of-the-art AI programs can support drug development by predicting the interaction of proteins with small molecules. However, researchers at the University of Basel show that these programs only memorize patterns instead of understanding physical relationships. They often fail when it comes to new proteins that would be particularly interesting for innovative drugs. 

An American-Korean research team from Dallas, Seattle, Seoul, and Wonju has developed a deep learning model for predicting protein complex structures in order to predict what proteins interact with which other proteins. Around 190 million human protein pairs were analyzed. They succeeded in predicting around 5,500 previously unknown interactions between human proteins, including those involved in immunity, metabolism, and cell signaling.