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AALAS District 8 on April 22-24 in Seattle
We end our month of April 2024 seminars in Seattle, Washington, an exciting place to grab a coffee, get out of the rain, and reunite to find better ways to house and care for the animals entrusted to us, and reduce confounds in research. While the care of lab animals does not include Seattle’s main […]
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New Get Real Podcast – The Dose Makes the Poison
Don’t miss the newest GetReal! podcast, “The Dose Makes the Poison.” In the newest episode with Cindy Buckmaster, we stop ignoring the truth about how new treatments make it to our medicine cabinets and face the hard facts…together. We can’t develop compassionate strategies for curing and treating disease if we don’t know the truth about […]
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See you at LAMA on April 15-18
Turner Scientific is Headed Your Way! We’ll see you at the Laboratory Animal Management Association on April 15-18, 2024 at the Island Resort in Fort Walton Beach, Florida! Join us as we continue our month of meetings in April, this time on Okaloosa Island in sunny Florida! We are excited to join leaders and managers […]
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Dawn Hidenfelter Joins TS
Turner Scientific has invited Dawn Hidenfelter to join the Turner Scientific Monitoring team as Director of Sales. Dawn is excited to partner with the biomedical research community in improving animal welfare and translatability for future medical advances. And Turner Scientific Monitoring is thrilled to have her on our team to facilitate the integration of the Sensory […]
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Sensory Sentinel Grants Available for 2023
For the third year, Turner Scientific is again offering a competitive grant opportunity for the award of one Sensory Sentinel device. Turner Scientific’s new environmental monitoring device, the Sensory Sentinel, is capable of monitoring noise, vibration, temperature, humidity, light levels, and human staff activities in animal laboratories. This grant can help you obtain a device […]
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Henton Published in the Journal of Neuroscience
Amanda Henton, a Senior Research Scientist at Turner Scientific, recently had her paper published by the Journal of Neuroscience. Amanda’s interest in her career started with music. “I have always loved music and was facinated by the way the brain can process such complex sounds such as speech and music. From there, I decided to […]
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Meet Amanda Henton
Turner Scientific is excited to announce our newest Senior Scientist – Amanda Henton, PhD. Dr. Henton brings not only a deep knowledge of neuroscience and hearing research, but also a love of music. “I play the oboe and have always loved music. It is because of this that I have dedicated my research efforts to […]
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Are There New Alternatives to Animal Research?
Why are we still doing research with animals when there are several human relevant, non-animal alternatives available to us that can be used to develop medical treatments? Dr. Megan LaFollette, Program Director of the North American 3Rs Collaborative, breaks it down on the most recent podcast episode of “GetReal!.” “GetReal!” is the podcast from Cindy […]
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Have you Heard? Over-the Counter Hearing Aids Available
For many years, hearing aids were only available to patients with a prescription from a physician. This resulted in high prices for hearing aids, making them unaffordable for many patients who otherwise would have benefited from sound amplification. In August 2022, the FDA issued a final rule to make many hearing aids available over-the-counter (OTC), […]