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Professor Douglas Kell, BBSRC Chief Executive, said: "We were disappointed to hear that an individual has caused damage to the BBSRC-funded GM field trial at Rothamsted Research and condemn this act of vandalism.
We strongly support the right of our funded scientists to carry out approved and regulated trials and we fully support the action of the police which prevented further science losses. We will now work closely with Rothamsted as they examine the extent of the damage caused and will provide all necessary funding and advice they need to complete the project…
UK Bioscience Sector Coalition response to protection of animals
BBSRC joined 11 other research organisations, as part of the UK Bioscience Sector Coalition, in welcoming today's (17 May) Home Office announcement and the UK Government's commitment to maintaining the UK's high standards of animal welfare, while cutting needless red tape. The UK bioscience sector believes that high animal welfare standards and the application of the 3Rs (reduction, refinement and replacement) are essential for research to understand and improve the treatment of diseases…
Open access publishing update
For some time the Research Councils have been working together on the transition to greater open access to research publications, and we are now looking at how this is working in practice and reviewing different payment models. We are planning to issue an updated policy on this in the next few months. BBSRC's current Policy on Open Access is on the website, and requires authors to deposit a copy of any published manuscript at the earliest opportunity in an appropriate e-print repository, for example UK PubMed Central…
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