Animals are our fellow creatures. Like every empathic person, handling animals affects us in a special way. As paradoxical as it may sound, we too would like to do without animal testing entirely. Provivo Biosciences has therefore set itself an ambitious goal: By 2050, we want to ensure that testing on living animals using "in vivo" methods is replaced 100 percent by alternative methods. This includes, for example, an expansion of "in vitro" technology. This means using methods in which testing is performed in a controlled artificial environment outside of a living organism, for example, in a test tube, a Petri dish, or through simulations in IT systems.

However, honesty requires us to be realistic. The functions and interactions in the human organism are too complex to reproduce them realistically in artificial cell cultures or in an IT model using the current scientific and information technology. The complexity even increases with the current knowledge of scientific research. To put it in a deliberately simplistic way: "The liver reproduced in the cell culture does not get a cough."

As a short-term goal, we therefore want to ensure that we continue to conduct only essential animal testing and that such testing is performed as responsibly as possible with regard to animal welfare. To this end, we want to develop new guidelines for our actions together with scientists and representatives of society.

We cannot answer these questions and achieve these goals on our own. This involves existential issues that concern us as a society as a whole and that can only be clarified in social discourse. We want to make our contribution to this public discourse:

We invite philosophers, social scientists, biologists, but also lawyers, medical professionals and animal rights  activists as external authors to work with us to further develop ethical and scientific guidelines. This process shall be documented transparently here, where it can be viewed, commented on and criticised by everyone.