In these webinars you will find current scientific breakthroughs in biology, botany and zoology and the part plants and animals play in evolution and ecology along with research devoted to the environmental impact related to these species.
Lyophilization, or freeze drying, is a common laboratory technique used in a wide range of applications. Tissues, vaccines, food, chemical compounds, circuit boards, artifacts and more can a...
There is a considerable interest and need for evidence-based recommendations regarding the social housing of laboratory rabbits. This presentation will review the principles surrounding the s...
Date: Novermber 2, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas are currently the gold standard of meeting our energy needs. High levels of fo...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 3:00pm PT, 6:00pm ETThe Eastern woodchuck (Marmota monax) is a large, burrowing rodent with native territories throughout parts of the US and Canada. Woodchu...
Neuroscience focuses on the study of the nervous system: a highly complex, dense, and organized network stretching across the whole body of most organisms. Due to this neuroscience can be a...
Our MoFlo Astrios serves or multidisciplinary Department of Biology through our open access Bioscience Technology Imaging and Cytometry Core Lab at the University of York. As a core instrumen...
Date: March 23, 2021 Time: 5:00am (PDT), 8:00am (EDT), 2:00pm (CEDT) Using a global targeted method, this lipidomic approach to meat characterization analyzes over 2000 lipid species in both...
In this webinar, we will discuss the technique of critical point drying for the preparation of biological and materials science samples for electron microscopy. As hydrated samples cannot ge...
Date: November 17, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) High pressure freezing offers versatile and deep capability in the study of intricate changes in fine structure or ce...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETThere are many factors involved in rabbit breeding that impact performance. In this evaluation of a Dutch Belted rabbit breeding c...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 7:30am PT, 10:30am ETMany of us who believe in the importance of aseptic rodent surgery have lived through the frustration of trying to implement rodent asep...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ETThere is no professional area in which CPD is more necessary than in the field of laboratory animals. The continuous advancement of scien...
Concerns about the quality of published animal research include inefficient or flawed study design, inappropriate statistical analysis and incomplete reporting. The ARRIVE guidelines were de...
In the course of the so-called reproducibility crisis, various sources of poor reproducibility of animal research have been identified, including a lack of scientific rigor, low statistical...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ETDevelopment of assisted reproductive technologies in the dog has lagged behind many other domestic and laboratory animal species, due in...
Inherent in research, is the simplification of a complex world into a testing space to explore cause and effect. Across preclinical research, questions are being raised on the testing space...
Conspecific aggression is a common problem amongst laboratory housed male mice. While C57BL/6 are not the most aggressive strain we house, they are exceedingly common, and dealing with...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00 ETSeveral regulatory bodies require that animals used in biomedical and behavioral research exposed to procedures that may cause more th...
Pharmaceutical research and development efforts are often both inefficient and suffer from a high attrition rate of drug candidates within the clinical phase of development. Most drug t...
The ability to rapidly and accurately identify pain in mice is critical for providing them optimal care and welfare. To meet this need, we developed and validated the Grooming Transfer Test (...
The webinar on the Zoetis and Genedata collaboration will cover key topics such as the challenges in biotherapeutic research, data management issues, and the need for centralized data. Atten...
Compassion fatigue, or the state of chronic stress for those caring for people or animals in distress, can affect anyone working in the lab animal sciences. This can even affect employe...
This session will explore the interpretation of multi-species scattergrams in normal and pathologic conditions. Numerous case studies will be reviewed....
Animal welfare is the most important issue in any in vivo laboratory. The ability to detect and intervene in cases where the conditions of animals may be deteriorating as well as the ability...
Introduction:The cannulation of the cisterna magna in the rat is a valuable model for in-vivo sampling of cerebrospinal fluid for studying delivery of new drugs into the central nervous sys...
There is a growing debate about the usefulness of animal studies in biomedical research and drug development. Some of the challenges in translation from animals to human patients may be from...
Preclinical drug discovery is at the edge of a major transformation that promises to improve translation to the clinic through enhanced acquisition and advanced analysis of data. While an imp...