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Tools
- Web tool aims to reduce flaws in animal studies - Daniel Cressey - 29 February 2016
- The Experimental Design Assistant - NC3Rs
- Humane Endpoints - 3Rs-Centre Utrecht Life Sciences (may need to subscribe but is free)
- Choosing the right species in research - Michael Mann, June 2015
- NC3Rs: National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
Publication reform to safeguard wildlife from researcher harm - Kate Field, April 2019, PLOS
Ethics in animal research and teaching
Posted on Feb. 10, 2023:
- The 3 Rs principles and genetic pain disenhancement - Camenzing and Eggel - 2022
Posted on June 14, 2021:
- Animals in Science Committee - Summary AWERBS - Dec 2020
- Ethics of Animal Research - Festing-Wilkinson- 2007
- Harm-Benefit Analysis - Yoram Gutfreund Feb. 12, 2020 - UK
- Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey - Rob Stein, April 15 2021, National Public Radio (NPR) - posted on April 16 2021
- Ethics in Animal Experimentation - CCAC - 2020
- Three Rs and Ethics - CCAC – 2020
- The ethics of research involving animals - Nuffield council on bioethics - 2005
- Welfare & Ethics of Wildlife Research - Carl Soulsbury, Sept. 2019, British Ecological Society
- The XV Collection: Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal Research - Jonathan Kimmelman - January 11, 2019
- The Critical Role of Nonhuman Primates in Medical Research - Henry Friedman - 2017 Aug 23
- Controversial experiment: Chinese add human gene to monkey brains - Marc Montgomery - Tuesday, April 16, 2019
- Field Research: The animal welfare view - Anton Krag, May 2008, NORECOPA
- Moral Problems and Perspectives for Ecological Field Research - Mark Wallace, April 2013, ILAR Journal
- Animal welfare and decision making in wildlife research - Clive McMahon, Sept. 2012
- Why a Chinese gene editing experiment is causing a firestorm of controversy - Tom Blackwell - Nov 26, 2018
- What it feels like to kill 563 mice for science - Jackson Ryan - June 13, 2018
- Opinion: Transparency Is Critical to Defend Animal Research - Cindy Buckmaster - Apr 11, 2019
Specific Topics
- 'Can we assess welfare? / Pouvons-nous évaluer le bien-être?' - Caroline J. Hewson, Can Vet J Volume 44, September 2003 - posted Sept. 2, 2021
- 'Animal-Centric Care and Management - Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research' - Edited By Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, Sylvie Cloutier, Brianna N. Gaskill, published October 15, 2020 by CRC Press (not free)
- CCAC Guidelines: Types of Animals - added here in April 2021
- CCAC Guidelines: The Care and Use of Wildlife - 2003 added here in April 2021
- CCAC Guidelines: The Care and Use of Farm Animals in Research, Teaching and Testing - 2009 added here in April 2021
- Why are U.S. neuroscientists clamoring for marmosets? - Kelly Servick - Oct. 23, 2018
- Similarities in reaction among animals and humans: Viewed through a new lens - Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi - September 23, 2019
- Males more sensitive to painful memories than females - Margaret Wdowiak - January 29, 2019
- Before reproducibility must come preproducibility - Philip B. Stark - 24 MAY 2018
- Rats, Depression and Chronic Pain - By Pat Anson - May 29, 2018
- Human drug trials are compromised by poor reporting of animal research - 5-APR-2018
- Opportunities for improving animal welfare in rodent models of epilepsy and seizures - Katie Lidster, Feb 2016, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
- Challenges in assessing fish welfare - Gilson Luiz Volpato, Jan. 2009
- Refinement of the use of non-human primates in scientific research. Part I: the influence of humans - AE Rennie, 2006, Animal Welfare
- Zebrafish Larvae Feel Pain--Should This Affect How We Use Them in Research? - Elizabeth Doughman, May 2017, Animal Welfare
- An International Survey of Approaches to Chair Restraint of Nonhuman Primates- Jennifer McMillan, Oct. 2017, Comparative Medicine
- Using the facial grimace scale to evaluate rabbit wellness in post-procedural monitoring- Victoria Hampshire, 2015, Nature America