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Members of the NC3Rs team will be presenting their work at the tenth World Congress on Alternatives from the 20 to 24 August in Seattle. In addition to presentations and posters, we have organised two workshops.

The tenth World Congress on Alternatives from the 20 to 24 August in Seattle poster

In her latest blog, NC3Rs Chief Executive, Vicky Robinson, describes our new collaboration with F1000Research to develop a portal for NC3Rs grant holders to publish details on their 3Rs method development.

An orange logo for the NC3Rs F1000 Research publication portal

The NC3Rs has sponsored four events during this year’s Pint of Science festival, where researchers took over pubs across the UK to speak about their work.

Pint of science logo

Researchers at University of Portsmouth have optimised a robust sperm preservation method that will reduce the number of frogs used in research.

Three frogs on top a container

Working in partnership with three contract research organisations (CROs), the NC3Rs has recently published recommendations in Laboratory Animals for best practice in rat bile duct cannulation (BDC) studies.

The OECD has recently approved a refined test guideline for acute inhalation studies.* The Fixed Concentration Procedure (FCP) is a refinement over currently accepted methods since it uses fewer animals (e.g. five animals per study compared to ten

Various medicines in a cabinet shelf

NC3Rs-funded PhD student Neal Rimmer, who works with Dr Jonathan McDearmid at the University of Leicester, shares his experience of participating in STEM for Britain, a competition that encourages early career researchers to promote their work by

 PhD student Neal Rimmer at a venue