Dr Eric Karran, Director of Research at Alzheimer’s Research UK, tells the NC3Rs why the charity is excited to be involved with the Challenge.
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The three day residential event, held at Madingley Hall in Cambridge, combined a series of talks and workshops with networking opportunities, and also gave the students chance to explore the hall’s grounds and spend some time getting to know one
We have awarded almost £600k to three promising early-career scientists, for 3Rs research across a broad range of disciplines.
Seven researchers have been awarded funding to engage with the public about their NC3Rs-funded work.
The power of collaboration is all around us. Wikipedia has become the epitome of collaborative crowd sourcing, to educate and satiate our need for information and answers.
Dr Mark Coles (University of York), Dr Gary Mirams (University of Oxford) and Dr Caroline Brennan (Queen Mary University of London) entertained sell-out audiences, explaining their fascinating science to pub-goers across the UK.
Amidst the ever-changing landscape of scholarly communication, open access publishing has emerged as an attractive option for disseminating research findings further.
Translations of our ARRIVE reporting guidelines are now available in several languages, the latest of which being Mandarin Chinese.
Dr Mark Prescott, Head of Research Management and Policy, gives the NC3Rs position on openness in animal research.
The festival is growing, with both the number of events and the breadth of reach increasing every year. This year it runs from the 19 to 21 May, and will host events in 44 venues in eight cities across the UK.
The book was coedited by Dr David Allen, from Integrated Laboratory Systems in North Carolina. Dr Allen has many years of experience in evaluating alternative toxicology methods.
Just as mice and rats are not humans, a mathematical model is not a human, but, like mice and rats, a model can be thought to be representative of human response to chemical exposure.
The aim of the CRACK IT Challenges open innovation platform – to connect scientists from different backgrounds in order to solve scientific and business problems with a 3Rs theme – closely aligns with our mission at Edinburgh BioQuarter, to stimulate
Professor Dr. Thomas Korff from the Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Heidelberg has recently been credited by the German Research Foundation (DGF) for his outstanding work in improving animal welfare in scientific research.
Translations of our ARRIVE reporting guidelines are now available in Italian and Portuguese.
The funding will support five projects to increase the utility of a broad spectrum of imaging techniques, including bioluminescence, radio labelling and implantable technology.
Dr Caroline Brennan, from Queen Mary University of London, tells the NC3Rs the top five reasons why zebrafish are her model of choice.
Re-evaluating animal models of pain could minimise animal use, improve the quality of scientific experiments and accelerate the development of novel pain treatments, the authors of a recent paper urge.
NC3Rs funded post-doctoral researcher Dr Maria Vinci, from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, tells us how she became interested in communicating her research to a wider audience and the impact this has had.
Infectious microbes are responsible for one in every three deaths worldwide, killing a staggering 14 million people each year.
