Service Pipeline
Our service pipeline supports more humane animal research and aims to reduce the cost of animal testing. We do this by introducing a Tier-1 phase of testing where animal-test free experimental models are used.
This follows the principle of 3Rs by the NC3Rs: Replacement, Reduction and Refinement.
While in vitro tests are an attractive alternative for animal testing, they can never replace full body effects of chemicals. In living organisms, cells and organs in the body communicate to each other, for example by hormones or other signalling molecules.
Additional 3R tests therefore include in vivo test systems, small organisms, like the 1-mm sized nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Our strategy allows us to pre-screen large amounts of compounds in a high-throughput fashion, to select the most promising compounds for product development pipelines. In addition, we can gain insight in how compounds cause their effects, in order to help to improve compound/drug design procedure.