Two teams have each been awarded £1million of funding to deliver Phase 2 of the 2016 CRACK IT Challenges.
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NC3Rs funding for inter-disciplinary research which combines electrical engineering and neurophysiology has resulted in a new product for brain recordings in mice that avoids many of the welfare concerns associated with existing approaches.
Over the last two years, representatives from the UK’s stroke research community have been working, in a collaboration led by the NC3Rs, to improve the welfare and increase the scientific value of rodent models of stroke.
In a transatlantic collaboration, scientists from the NC3Rs and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia have conducted the first ever survey of the approaches used for training monkeys for chair restraint.
The 2017 CRACK IT Challenges competition consists of three Challenges identified jointly by the NC3Rs and Sponsors.
The second blog post in our series ‘Data, data, data’* is by Owen Jones from AstraZeneca. Owen describes their work on the PreDICT project to improve data management from in vivo experiments and reduce the use of animals in its research.
A report in Biofabrication authored by scientists from the Universities of Manchester and Strathclyde, AstraZeneca, Syngenta, Unilever and the NC3Rs highlights recommendations for applying bioprinting technology to improve safety testing while
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 latest project grant funding from the NC3Rs includes two awards focusing on applying the 3Rs to poultry research.
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.
This is the first post in a series of guest blogs about different aspects of managing data and its importance for the 3Rs.
Today we have published a strategy document which sets out our plans for the next three years.
Scientists at Newcastle University have investigated whether social stimuli can be used to reduce fluid restriction for macaques used in behavioural neuroscience research. Their findings are published in PLoS ONE.
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.
Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a novel automated system for positive reinforcement training (PRT) of macaque monkeys, suitable for use in breeding and research facilities.
Researchers at University of Portsmouth have optimised a robust sperm preservation method that will reduce the number of frogs used in research.
Many scientists can be reluctant to adopt new 3Rs technologies and approaches because of concerns about comparison with historic data or access to specialist skills for example.
Our Regional Programme Managers, Kamar Ameen-Ali and Emma Stringer, have recently been working with universities on their web pages about animal research.
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
