by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
SUMMARY Derived from the blood of pregnant horses, “pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG)”, is a hormone frequently used in farming and the breeding of mice and rats with specific genetic mutations. It is used in starting and synchronising the ovulation...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND To perform i.v. injections on mice reliably, extensive training is required. This is usually performed on live animals.For the first steps of training (handling of syringes and the tail), our 3D-printed mouse tail models can be useful placeholders instead...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND The goal of this project was to design and build an automated grimace scale setup to increase the depth andreliability of animal welfare monitoring in mice. We went above and beyond this goal and not only developed asetup capable of automating the grimace...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 8, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND In animal research, a strong bias towards using male animals is apparent in most disciplines. By using animals of only one sex, researchers risk missing important sex differences and using animals for inconclusive findings. In response to such overt sex...
by robbie ianson price | Jul 7, 2025 | Funded Projects
BACKGROUND For every 100 prospective therapies in clinical development, approximately 90 are never approved for clinical use. This unsatisfactory rate is especially high in the field of neurosciences, revealing the complex biology of the human brain and the necessity...
