Open AccessCentro 3R: Organ and tissue sharing project
Author(s) -
Manuela Marcoli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biomedical science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2531-9892
DOI - 10.4081/bse.2019.96
Subject(s) - christian ministry , shared resource , resource (disambiguation) , engineering management , complement (music) , business , computer science , knowledge management , process management , engineering , biology , computer security , political science , computer network , biochemistry , complementation , law , gene , phenotype
To optimize sharing of organs/tissues from animals humanely sacrificed for (scientific or research) projects approved by the Ministry of Health, by considering that functional - but not only functional - experiments often require using fresh tissues, the 3R Centre is establishing a pilot project involving the University of Genoa and the University of Pisa and their OPBA, enabling sharing fresh tissues through platforms on territorial basis (that might be connected on platform networks) allowing the researcher to use at best valuable biological resource. Implementation of the project would allow establishing protocols for organ/tissue sharing including fresh preparations, therefore meeting more requests than the frozen/fixed tissues. The project by allowing strict collaboration and exchange between researchers would complement the Ministry of Health platform for tissue sharing and would contribute to step forward on the effective reduction of animal use for experimental purpose.