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Enter to win a tuition scholarship for the Workshop on Anaesthesiology on March 21nd and 22nd at the René Remie Surgical Skills Centre in Almere!
Kent Scientific is excited to partner with our Scientific Advisor, Dr. Remie at his Surgical Skills Centre, known for providing the best training for rodent surgeons from basic to highly advanced procedures. Dr. Remie and Kent Scientific are teaming up to offer a unique workshop focused on anesthesia delivery for rodent surgeries. Learn more about the workshop here.
Kent Scientific is proud to offer a full tuition scholarship for this workshop. If you would like to apply, please click the link here.
Rodent anesthesia can be challenging due to the many factors that determine success. For research requiring anesthesia, rodents must be anesthetized accurately based on their size and metabolic rate. They must be monitored to eliminate harmful side effects, and one way to ensure accuracy is to use a low-flow anesthesia system.
One-on-one hands-on sessions in a small class setting with Dr. Yelena Akelina, DVM, MS Director, Microsurgery Lab, Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University
We appreciate that a little financial aid can go a long way for students and academic researchers. This is why we are delighted to offer in-lab training scholarships to select researchers who are utilizing in vivo rodent models in their research and are looking to sharpen their skills at the bench!
Here’s how it works: Register for the training course that suits your needs and share your research goals with our team. Ensure that you confirm your eligibility for the scholarship by filling out all required fields and providing a detailed research summary. Course organizers will review all registrations and will contact you if you are eligible to receive a scholarship. If you are selected, you will then arrange to attend the course of your choosing and the scholarship award will be applied to your registration fee.
One of the best things about the holidays is the food. While you’re busy trying to decide which side dish to bring to the party, researchers are busy making discoveries that change what we thought we knew about food, diet, and how what we eat affects our brains, our health, and our susceptibility to disease.
Longer life is the Holy Grail of scientific research, and new discoveries may put us one step closer to understanding how to help mice, and humans, live longer.
An electronic anesthesia vaporizer converts a liquid anesthetic into a gas vapor. This process is required because anesthetic agents are usually supplied in liquid form at atmospheric pressure and room temperature. These agents must be vaporized before lab animals can inhale them for surgery.
Does the sex of the researcher or the animal matter in animal research? Increasingly, it’s looking like the answer is yes, at least in some cases. In recent studies, scientists are gaining a better understanding of how biological sex affects research results.
According to the American Cancer Society, there will be approximately 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 609,360 cancer deaths in the United States this year. Working with animal models, researchers have recently discovered potential new treatments for cancers of the brain, bone marrow, thymus, liver, lung, and lymph nodes.
Researchers have been exploring the link between anesthesia and body temperature since the early 1930s. One study (1942) into the body temperature of mice during anesthesia posited a connection between reduced anesthetic efficacy and a drop in core temperature. Yet the importance of body temperature measurement prior to, during, and after general anesthesia, particularly in research settings, can often go overlooked.
Mouse brains have obvious differences from the human brain, but have still proven to be important models for studying many aspects of the human brain. New mouse studies have given researchers insight into a number of brain functions that could have implications for humans, including how the brain determines whether an experience is positive or negative, fast food’s role in depression and anxiety, how pollution and stress alter brain development, and how waking up at night could boost memory.
Welcome to the KentConnects blog, where we provide tips, best practices, examples, and more helpful information to improve your processes, boost your efficiency, and make your lab work smarter and safer.