
ALT A young child visiting a public engagement stall on refining the use of rodents in research. Activities explored how understanding the sensory perceptions of animals helps scientists and facility staff to improve their welfare, including a 'rodent vision simulator' and headphones to listen to rat ultrasonic vocalisations.

ALT Mechanical injury of a human tissue engineered arterial construct leads to blood clot formation. The top image shows the construct leaking blood after thrombi have formed and blocked the vessel, causing an increase in pressure and a ‘channel blowout’. The bottom image shows the accumulation of fluorescently labelled platelets indicating thrombus formation in the injured, and not uninjured control, vessel.

ALT The homepage of the ARRIVE guidelines website. Text reads: The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) are a checklist of recommendations to improve the reporting of research involving animals - maximising the quality and reproducibility of published research, and enabling others to better scrutinise, evaluate and reproduce it.'

















