Why are biomedical researchers under so much pressure to produce, produce, produce? And does this pressure accelerate or delay meaningful progress for new treatments and cures? Our guest today came to us through the GetReal! website. She is a PhD student of cancer immunology who has a lot to share about her concerns, frustrations...and her hope for the future of medical advances requiring research with animals. Gloves off, animal lovers. It's time to tell it like it is.

Chilly mice and misleading study results

Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results

Using Mice to Model Human Disease: Understanding the Roles of Baseline Housing-Induced and Experimentally Imposed Stresses in Animal Welfare and Experimental Reproducibility

Thermoneutrality, Mice, and Cancer: A Heated Opinion

My “500 words” to the NIH Working Group on Enhancing Rigor, Transparency, and Translatability in Animal Research…

Let’s require institutional rigor scores!