3Rs and biophysics

Scientific autonomy and the 3Rs.

In order to appreciate fully the great impact of Osborne and colleagues’ (2009) article, one must recall the logic of professional ethics. Society in essence tasks professionals, including scientists, with the following directive: “You comport yourselves ethically the way we would expect you to if we fully understood what you do, which we don’t, but we will know if you fail to do so, and regula...

Integrated 3Rs education

MGDC was established in 2009 by Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation to promote adoption of 3Rs in India. MGDC adopted a pragmatic approach in which the academic fraternity was enlightened about and trained in ICt tools in education as alternatives to animal dissections and experiments in 40 seminar-cum-workshops across the country, in parallel with training to more than 200 researchers in in vitro an...

3Rs in Education.

ALTEX 33(2), 2016 185 – Prof. Njenga Munene, DVC Administration and Finance Egerton – Prof. John Mwangi, DVC Research & Extension – Prof. Charles Muleke, Dean, Faculty of Veterinary Science and Medicine – Dr Ashour K. Khalifa, Ministry of Interior, Equine Department of Police General Security, Tripoli, Libya – Dr Rodi O. Ojoo, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi – Dr Kirui Gil...

3Rs and new frontiers in laboratory techniques.

Altex 31, 3/14 367 Huh, D., Matthews, B. D., Mammoto, A. et al. (2010). Reconstituting organ-level lung functions on a chip. Science 328, 1662-1668. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1188302 Huh, D., Leslie, D. C., Matthews, B. D. et al. (2012). A human disease model of drug toxicity – induced pulmonary edema in a lung-on-a-chip microdevice. Sci Trans Med 4, 159ra147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/...

Biophysics.