Are You Planning to Use Animals in Your Research?

Excellent five-part series which examines the history and politics behind the Animal Welfare Act and asks us to look at how humane the laboratory animal business is today.

The Animal Welfare Information Center is mandated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) to provide information for improved animal care and use in research, testing, teaching, and exhibition. Resource for literature related to research protocols.

Provides resources such as inspection reports and annual reports from research facilities made available through the Freedom of Information Act.

Organization that promotes non-animal testing within the biomedical sciences through research and test development.

Organization dedicated to the use of animal-free alternatives in medical experimentation.

The Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) provides grants, resources, publications, and event information related to research developing alternatives to animal testing.

Awards grants to develop alternative methods to animal testing. Funded by Alternatives Research and Development Foundation (ARDF).

IIVS is a non-profit, science-based organization dedicated to the advancement of alternative testing methods by pushing to increase the acceptance of in vitro testing worldwide.

Column post from Daniel Engber in response to the annual question, "What have you changed your mind about? Why?" in which Engber discusses the complex topic of animal testing in biological research.

Provides information on alternative and non-test methods of assessing the properties of chemical substances.

Advocacy group and resource for educators and students in using non-animal methods to teach and study science.

The Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and Teaching (ANZCCART) and the Ministry for Primary Industries have produced a series of booklets on the application of the three Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement) in the use of animals in research and teaching.

IACUC Central is a resource for institutional animal care and use committee members and staff. Updated quarterly, IACUC Central organizes information into pages containing links to governmental agencies, databases, examples of institutional websites, training resources, and more.

Methods for chemical safety testing that are accepted by U.S. and international regulatory authorities as replacement, reduction, or refinement alternatives to required animal tests

The NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) is an NTP office focused on the development and evaluation of alternatives to animal use for chemical safety testing. The topics in this section provide information about approaches used to replace, reduce, or refine animal use while ensuring that the toxic potential of substances is appropriately characterized.

Our aim is to create a world-wide association of academics from all disciplines who want to pioneer ethical perspectives on animals.

The Animals & Society Institute (ASI) is a nonprofit human-animal relationship think tank that is devoted to advancing human knowledge to improve animal lives.