3 Minute 3Rs

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3 Minute 3Rs is your monthly recap of efforts to replace, reduce, and refine the use of animals in research, brought to you by the NC3Rs, the North American 3Rs Collaborative, and Lab Animal.

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3-minute 3Rs February 2018

In this month's 3-minute 3R's, we're talking temperature, environmental enrichment to improve stress responses in zebrafish, and better ways to handle mice.The papers behind the pod:Mice Housed at Elevated Vivarium Temperatures Display Enhanced T-cell Response and Survival to Francisella tularensis: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aalas/cm/2017/00000067/00000006/art00004Heat or Insulation: Behavioral Titration of Mouse Preference for Warmth or Access to a Nest: http://journals.plos.org/plo...

Feb 22, 2018•4 min

3-minute 3Rs January 2018

In this month's 3-minute 3Rs: A review on using zebrafish embryos to help improve nano-toxicology studies (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408444.2017.1404965?journalCode=itxc20)Turning plain language summaries of animal experiments into analyzable data (http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003217)And, a new protocol for making knockout mice in a single generation (https://www.nature.com/articles/nprot.2017.110)Find out more at Lab Animal (www.nature...

Jan 18, 2018•5 min

3-Minute-3Rs December 2017

3 minute 3Rs, brought to you by Lab Animal at Nature Research and the NC3Rs in London, is a quick monthly podcast summarizing the latest research and news in 3Rs Science and Technology. In this month's podcast:A "transparent ribcage" for imaging tumor dynamics with cellular resolution in murine lungs (https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4511)The future of tissue chips for improving drug discovery (https://doi.org/10.1177/1535370217715441)Robotic zebrafish for probing social behavioral (http://...

Dec 14, 2017•5 min

3 Minute 3Rs November

3 minute 3Rs, brought to you by Lab Animal at Nature Research and the NC3Rs in London, is a quick monthly podcast summarizing the latest research and news in 3Rs Science and Technology. This month, we look at rodent big brother for 24/7 remote monitoring of rodent behavior, the alliance of genome resources, and the experimental design assistant for improving the rigor and reproducibility of animal research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 16, 2017•5 min

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