While 2017 is the Chinese year of the rooster you could say that it is the NC3Rs year of the rodent as we are launching a number of exciting initiatives focusing on the welfare of rats and mice.
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This year, we have a highlight notice* across all of our funding schemes on the use of human tissues for 3Rs purposes.
We have written about a huge range of topics relating to the 3Rs in 2016. Here we review the most popular news and blog items published over the past year, including the new series of blogs from our Chief Executive, Dr Vicky Robinson.
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In this blog post Professor Lucy Walker sheds light on what it is like to be part of an NC3Rs Panel. Professor Lucy Walker is Chair of Immune Regulation at University College London's Institute of Immunity and
Since the inception of the NC3Rs 12 years ago, we have had a programme of work in toxicology and regulatory sciences.
In July, the NC3Rs hosted 19 PhD students from institutions across the UK at our fourth annual Summer School.
In her blog this month, our Chief Executive Dr Vicky Robinson discusses our ongoing collaboration with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), and a new project involving data sharing.
The emotional state of an animal is a key indicator of its welfare and many researchers now use a variety of approaches to better understand the wellbeing of animals, and the impact that good welfare can have on research.
A study, published in the journal Cell, describes organoids of colorectal cancer derived from the patients’ own tissue.
In May 2015, we launched a major new resource – The Macaque Website – which complements our earlier website on Common Marmoset Care.
Funding research has been an essential part of our strategy and over the last five years we have committed around £28 million for grants to develop and characterise new 3Rs approaches and technologies.
Recently our grant holders spoke in pubs as part of the Pint of Science festival, which took place across the UK on 23-25 May.
Today is World Asthma Day. To mark this important event our Chief Executive Dr Vicky Robinson is using her monthly blog to highlight some of the work that we have been leading over the last ten years in partnership with the UK’s asthma research
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about scientists and new procedures?
We are launching a new series of monthly blog posts by our Chief Executive, Dr Vicky Robinson.
A study published in Nature reported the creation of brain organoids that mimic the developing human cerebrum for the very first time.
The work of the NC3Rs is increasingly international. We continue to maintain our focus as the UK’s national centre on the 3Rs, but as our portfolio of office-led data sharing activities has grown, so too has the number of overseas partners that we
A new e-learning training package designed to help researchers and animal care staff identify signs of good and poor welfare in laboratory animals has been launched online.
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one of the biggest challenges facing the cattle farming industry in the UK.
The ARRIVE guidelines were launched in 2010, and since their publication the scientific community have been using the guidelines to improve the reporting of animal research.
