Small laboratory animals such as mice are being used to understand more about the biology
of human system. This would create a setup where more information is extracted from …

In vivo imaging is increasingly deployed across the drug development process, with
applicability in target identification, compound optimisation and pre-Phase I studies. In vivo …

The pharmaceutical research community has had a longstanding guideline that for
experimental therapeutic preclinical studies at least six animals are required for each data …

Laboratory animals play an important role in biomedical research and act as a backbone of
new drug research and development. Biomedical research is primarily dependent on …

Drug development is a time consuming and costly process, and new molecules go through
preclinical studies in a variety of experimental animals and different phases of clinical trials …

Translational research is changing the practice of modern medicine and the way in which
health problems are approached and solved. The use of small-animal models in basic and …

Imaging has long been indispensable in clinical practice, and researchers have for many
years used the same toolbox of imaging modalities as a component of their preclinical and …

Preclinical imaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography
(CT), ultrasound (US), positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission …

Drug discovery and development is a time-consuming and costly process, which may take
approximately 15 years to advance from laboratory discovery to FDA approval and require …

The discovery and development of a biologically active molecule with therapeutic properties
is an increasingly complex task, highly unpredictable at the early stages and frequently …