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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.

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Translations of our ARRIVE reporting guidelines are now available in several languages, the latest of which being Mandarin Chinese.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A popular UK training resource to support the adoption of best practice for commonly used laboratory procedures in animal research is now available in Chinese.

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