Changing paradigms: from unnecessary animal experiments to non-animal methods as a sustainable basis for scientific progress.

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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Departamento de Genética, Laboratório de Imunobiologia e Imunogenética, Campus do Vale, Avenida Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Agronomia, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Published: February 2025


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