American researchers led by Dr. Joseph C. Wu at Stanford University, California, have developed an in vitro model from human pluripotent stem cells that mimics the earliest stages of vascularization of heart and liver organoids, corresponding to the first three weeks of in vivo development in humans.

Today, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Homeland (BMLEH) appointed Silvia Breher (CDU), Parliamentary State Secretary at BMLEH, as the new Federal Animal Welfare Commissioner. She replaces veterinarian Dr. Ariane Kari, whose contract was not renewed.

The German pharmaceutical journal (Pharmazeutische Zeitung) gave an interesting overview of fraud “science” on a large scale. The article is based on a recent study by Northwestern University, published in PNAS.

As the European validation authority EURL ECVAM reports in its current newsletter, ECVAM will present its new AI database called BioMedModelHub (BiMMoH) at this year's World Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing (motto 3Rs Integrating 3 Worlds - human, Animal and Environmental Health). The database uses machine learning methods to analyze scientific publications from PubMed, identify models with high translational potential and thus support the reduction of animal testing.