• Question: Do you use animals for your virus experiment?

    Asked by Raven to Ruth on 16 Jun 2015.
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      Ruth Elderfield answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      The project I am working is funded by a charity (NC3Rs) who try to reduce the number of animals used in research or replace the animals for something else. So I’ve managed to develop a system where we use one or two rather than 30 animals. Ideally, we want to use no animals at all, but I still have to work to do in order to get that far.
      We do most of our work in immortal cell lines from tumour cells.

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