Foot and mouth life-cycle
This animation shows how foot-and-mouth virus enters its host and replicates.
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Radio 5 live from Mary Lyon Centre
Victoria Derbyshire recorded from the Mary Lyon (MRC) animal research centre near Oxford. She heard about the...
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Foot and Mouth Vaccine Production
Presentation about experimental Foot and Mouth vaccine production
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From Fireflies to Superbugs
Genetic modification, taking genes from one animal and putting them in another sounds like science fiction but...
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A day in the life of an animal technologist
We walk around King's College animal research facility with one of the animal technologists who in this episod...
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Marmosets and research into Parkinson's Disease
Geoff Butcher has Parkinson's disease. Here we hear him interview a scientist who uses Marmosets as an animal...
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Dogs in medical research into heart function
Research into new heart medicines is being helped by these dogs. The dogs are exercised daily and trained to w...
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Patient, David Taylor, meets scientist, Fran Balkwill
Cancer survivor David Taylor interviews Professor Frances Balkwill about her research and the role animals pla...
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Stem cells and heart repair
Professor Michael Schneider of Imperial College tells Alan Keys about how stem cell research is leading to tre...
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Why do molerats live so long?
Naked molerats can live for more than thirty years in captivity, far more than than other rodents. What is mor...
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Animal research and diabetes
Research on dogs led to the discovery of insulin and the death sentence that until then was associated with di...
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Understanding Asthma
In this short film we hear about the experience of having asthma from Tim Wilson and about how animal research...
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Visitors to an animal research facility
UAR worked with Genetic Alliance UK to arrange a visit to a university animal facility for some of their membe...
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Judy McArthur Clark on the EU Animals Scientific Procedures Act
Presentation by Judy McArthur Clark, Home Office UK, discussing the implementation of the 2010 European Direct...
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99 percent mouse 1 percent human
Dr Robin Lovell-Badge from the MRC explains why putting human cells into an animal can be a good thing and the...
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David Reynolds, EFPIA, discusses 2010 European Directive on Animal Scientific Procedures
Presentation by David Reynolds, EFPIA, discussing the implementation of the 2010 European Directive on Animal...
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Growing human testis tissue in mice to study human reproductive disorders
Human reproductive disorders such as low-sperm count and testicular cancer can start early in development so i...
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Using mice as a model for Alzheimer's disease
Mice can be used to mimic Alzheimer's disease in humans. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dement...
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Why do we use animals in research?
In our latest video Dr Simon Festing, our Chief Executive, answers questions about why animals are an essentia...
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What has animal research done for the brain?
This video from our archives was produced in 2004 by the Coalition for Medical Progress. We hear from scientis...
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Parkinson's disease
Mike Robbins suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. He explains how a ‘pacemaker’ implanted into his brain – a sur...
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Where do medicines come from?
This short film supports our leaflet of the same name and was produced to be seen in GP surgeries where the so...
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How much animal research is done in the UK?
This video outlines how much animal research is done in the UK and gives information about the animals used. O...
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Of Mice and Men -- talk at the British Science Festival 10:30 14 September
UAR is hosting a talk -- Of Mice and Men -- about GM mice by Sara Wells and Paul Potter from the Mary Lyon Cen...
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UAR interviews Chloe Rackham about her diabetes
We interviewed Chloe just before World Diabetes Day 2010.
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Guinea pigs in medical research
The video shows typical guinea-pig housing. Guinea pigs are social animals and therefore should never be hous...
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Frogs (Xenopus) in medical research
Frogs are especially useful in animal research because of the large number of eggs they can produce. These can...
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Opossums in medical research
Opossums are very keen on baby custard as you can see from the video clip, so with this in mind a training pro...
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Research guinea pigs (available in broadcast quality)
This video shows guinea-pigs being handled by a researcher and an example of a typical guinea-pig enclosure. G...
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Dogs in medical research
This video shows typical housing conditions for dogs. There are multiple enclosures which allow isolation of...
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Marmosets in medical research
Monkeys used in research are housed in family groups and can groom each other, climb, forage for food and play...
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Rabbits in medical research
The rabbit enclosures in these videos are similar to those found in most animal houses. Rabbits are very soci...
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Mice in medical research
This video shows the standard caging used for mice in animal houses. It is important to note that mice are muc...
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Macaques in medical research
These macaques were filmed in their living quarters in a UK research facility in early 2005. Monkeys used in r...
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Ferrets in medical research
The video shows ferrets playing whilst their enclosure is being cleaned. As you can see they are playful crea...
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Metformin Activates an Atypical PKC-CBP Pathway to Promote Neurogenesis
This video abstract from Stem Cell explains about how Metformin promotes neurogenesis and enhance spatial memo...
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