SCIREQ recently attended this year’s Society For Research On Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT 2021) Annual Meeting! This year’s theme was focused on social justice issues, health inequality, and [...]
This February, Keystone held a virtual conference that discussed SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility, immune response, and updates on vaccines and treatments. Here are some highlights of what we learned [...]
1. EXPERIMENTAL GOAL The forced oscillation technique (FOT) using the flexiVent has been the gold standard for pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in small animal in vivo studies for many years2,3. [...]
Due to the wide variety of strains available and ease of procurement and care, the mouse dominates in vivo pre-clinical research. Although a robust model, important divergences from human [...]
As in humans, the Angiotensin I Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors of hamsters naturally permit binding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein. This suggests that hamsters are an important model [...]