
ATLA 44.6 out now
The latest edition of Alternatives to Laboratory Animals (ATLA) is now available.
Issue 44.6 contains the following articles and comments:

The latest edition of Alternatives to Laboratory Animals (ATLA) is now available.
Issue 44.6 contains the following articles and comments:

Early intervention is recognised as crucial in mitigating and preventing developmental disabilities. Yet services for early intervention are rare in India and non-existent in the rural areas.

FRAME would like to congratulate one of its collaborators, XCellR8 on successfully securing a large European grant to continue their important work to develop and get regulatory acceptance of a non-animal test to check the safety of new cosmetic or personal care products. In a statement released today (12 September 2016), XCellR8 announced: The complete […]

The new issue (44.3) of FRAME’s scientific journal ATLA is out now. The contents include: EDITORIAL: First thoughts on the effects on the protection of laboratory animals of the UK’s departure from the European Union M. Balls ARTICLES: The use of in vivo, ex vivo, in vitro, computational models and volunteer studies in vision research […]

FRAME News issue 76 is out now. Learn about our recent activities including, responding to a Home Office consultation and improving training in experimental design. Meet our latest interns and read about their interesting projects, as well as catching up on new developments in cosmetic testing and the Government statistics on animal experiments. Read FRAME […]

FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments) is pleased to see publication of the paper Animal-friendly affinity reagents: Replacing the needless in the haystack. The opinion paper highlights the somewhat hidden cost to animal lives in the production of animal-derived antibodies, which are used in a wide range of scientific and commercial […]

“FRAME is extremely disappointed that the latest Home Office statistics on animal use in science show an increase in animal experimentation. We are deeply concerned that the use of genetically altered animals continues to increase, with 34% of experimental procedures using them and half of all procedures being done to create and breed them. These […]

Undergraduate students from Nottingham Trent University have worked on behalf of FRAME with the aim of promoting engagement with the issues affecting animal experimentation and alternatives, and exploring ways in which it can be incorporated into the secondary school curriculum. The university students created a survey to identify what if anything is already taught, what […]

The new issue (44.2) of FRAME’s scientific journal ATLA is out now. The contents include: EDITORIAL: Concerns that animal testing continues without scientific justification M. Balls. ARTICLES: Stakeholders views on the creation and use of genetically-engineered animals in research E.H. Ormandy. Evaluation of an in vitro cell culture assay for the potency assessment of recombinant […]

The latest issue (44.1) of FRAME’s scientific journal ATLA is now available. The contents include: EDITORIAL: Scientific issues raised by the use of dogs as laboratory animals. M. Balls. ARTICLES: A comparative evaluation of six principal IgY antibody extraction methods. H. Ren, W. Yang, D. Thirumalai, X. Zhang & R. Schade. A training course on […]