Strengthen the supervision of animal experiment data quality in the UK

The UK Research Council and other agencies responsible for the approval and distribution of government research funds jointly issued the latest announcement, saying that they will revise the application guidelines for research projects involving animal experiments, requiring the applied researchers to provide more detailed data of animal experiments in order to improve the quality of related research projects This new regulation is mainly aimed at medical research projects, most of which need to use animals (mainly mice and mice) to carry out experiments on drugs and other aspects, which is very important for further clinical trials of drugs However, many related projects funded by scientific research funds only use a small number of animals for experimental sampling, resulting in insufficient experimental data, which is difficult to support the effectiveness of experimental results The new guidelines for the application of scientific research funds put forward higher requirements for scientific research projects involving animal experiments Applicants must provide more detailed information on the number of animals used in the experiment and their correlation, how to reduce the possible deviation in the experiment and carry out more detailed data analysis Malcolm McLeod, a neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh, was quoted as saying in an article in the online edition of the British journal Nature that the current deficiencies in animal experiments are mainly due to the lack of experience of many researchers on how to design a reasonable and effective experimental procedure, and the lack of training in this area In addition, funding constraints prevent researchers from using more animals for experiments In fact, this problem does not only exist in the British academic circles, but also experts in the United States have warned that many medical researches have not obtained enough animal experimental data as support before carrying out clinical trials Some British scientists suggest that in order to achieve better results in animal experiments with limited funds, different researchers engaged in similar research projects may strengthen data communication to enhance the effectiveness of data analysis in animal experiments.