Am 28. April 2022 findet der deutschlandweite "Boys' & Girls' Day" statt, der auf dem Beutenberg-Campus in Jena als "Forsche Schüler Tag" durchgeführt wird. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltungsreihe lädt…
Typical tasks of the animal caretakers are the daily inspection of the mice, changing the water bottles and the cages, as well as feeding the animals. During the weekly cage change, the mice are…
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In Dialog
The FLI strives to communicate transparently and openly about animal experiments. This applies to this website as well as to our publications or press releases. In addition, we engage in…
Initiative "Understanding Animal Research"
"Understanding Animal Research" is an initiative of German science with the goal to inform comprehensively and fact-based on animal experiments. This…
Turquoise Killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri)
Exceptional African fish helps to understand aging
The turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) lives in seasonally dry ponds in semi-arid areas of…
Wild mice vs lab mice
At the FLI, too, mice are an important animal model and are used in research on the decline in stem cell function and on aging-associated conditions such as muscle atrophy,…
The mouse as model organism
For more than a hundred years, scientists have been performing research on and with mice. Initially, this was because the animals were easy and relatively inexpensive to…