The Animal Care and Production Unit (Vivarium) provides services to both academic research and industry in order to provide animals used in medical and biotechnology scientific research within the priority R&D areas of Turkey. LifeSci Vivarium received full accreditation in 2017 from the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC International), the only authority that can accredit animal centers all over the world, and operates as Turkey’s first and still the only animal unit with AAALAC accreditation.
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