April 24th is World Day for Laboratory Animals. We are taking this day as an opportunity to publish the numbers of laboratory animals used by the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. Here you will find the number of animals per species and the stress levels of the experiments compared to previous years. In 2024, the majority of animal experiments at the Institute were carried out on mice and zebrafish for research into the infectious diseases malaria and tuberculosis. Experiments have also been carried out on rats and on the fish species Danionella cerebrum.
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