It has been 45 years since Russell and Burch first proposed the concept of the '3Rs', yet it remains unclear how those individuals involved in animal research view and implement these concepts.

It must agree that our work is necessary and will be sufficiently beneficial before we can do any research using animals. The research community is always looking for ways to improve welfare and ...

CRUK is committed to ensuring that our policy on animal research is implemented effectively, particularly with respect to the 3Rs. This is important not only in helping to reduce animal use and ...

Animals in laboratories are generally used for three distinct scientific purposes: research, testing, and teaching: Research refers to studies meant to advance scientific knowledge by learning ...

The 3Rs (replacement, reduction, refinement) are a set of principles that provide an internationally accepted framework toward achieving more humane scientific research by minimizing animal distress.

This year’s 3Rs Prize has been awarded to Dr Francesco Nevelli at Merck for a publication describing the development of an in vitro assay for testing follicle-stimulating hormone product potency.

The 2019 3Rs prize has been jointly awarded to Dr Francesca Nunn and Dr Marta Shahbazi for papers describing research that reduces the number of chickens and mice respectively. The 3Rs prize is ...

The North American 3Rs Collaborative (NA3RsC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance science, innovation, and research animal welfare. We facilitate collaborative opportunities to ...

Good scientific research requires strict adherence to the ethical and humane treatment of research animals. At UC Davis we both endorse and enforce the "3Rs principles" in which biomedical researchers ...

The webinar, 'After the Lab: Legal Solutions to the Laboratory Animal Rehoming Problem’, explored ways to help researchers ...

Additional studies show that the NSET procedure is effective for transfer of mouse embryos for the purposes of rederivation, cryorecovery, and transgenic research. Embryos can be successfully ...