March 18th 2022 In a recent letter to the US National Institutions of Health (NIH) , Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) and Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) called for the NIH “to discontinue animal experiments and find alternatives to animal testing.” They write: “As Members of Congress, we are concerned the National Institutes of Health (NIH) … Continue reading Evergreen: Statistics out of context, predictability, and utility of animal models
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Diversity may improve the reproducibility of pre-clinical animal research
Reproducibility – or the ability to obtain similar experimental results across replicate studies – in pre-clinical research is essential to the success of clinical trials. While this topic has garnered much attention in popular press, it is one that is sometimes not well understood and, other times, misrepresented to mean that all science is in … Continue reading Diversity may improve the reproducibility of pre-clinical animal research
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