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AWI Quarterly Articles | Animals in Laboratories

Please see the below articles about Animals in Laboratories from past editions of the AWI Quarterly.

 

Highlights from Recipients of AWI Implementing Refinement Grants

Refined Mouse Handling The objective of this project was to introduce tunnel handling—a non-aversive alternative to tail handling—to mice during husbandry and routine handling procedures across a large facility with approximately 12,000 mouse cages. The...

The UK Invests in Non-Animal Research Methods

An important but underacknowledged barrier to reducing and replacing the use of animals in research and testing is that few researchers are trained in how to use non-animal methodologies. To help address this gap, the...

Enhancing the Audio-Visual Environment for Nonhuman Primates

by Jeannine Cason Rodgers, enrichment, behavior and training specialist, and Dr. Christopher Cheleuitte-Nieves, senior clinical veterinarian, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medicine; and Eme Chan, student at Cornell University College of...

AWI Funds Welfare Refinement Efforts

Every year, AWI provides financial support for the creation and implementation of “refinement” initiatives meant to advance the welfare of animals used in research through improved housing, husbandry, handling, or care. The Refinement Research Award...

Approved Toxin Test Bypasses Horseshoe Crab Bleeding

In a welcome development, non-animal-derived reagents have been approved for endotoxin testing by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Microbiology Expert Committee, and the approval is expected to become official in May 2025. As reported in...

Monkey Business on Hold—for Now

As reported this spring in the AWI Quarterly, a company called Safer Human Medicine (SHM) is seeking to build a massive facility in Bainbridge, Georgia, to breed tens of thousands of long-tailed macaques that it...