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Drug Discovery with Venom
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Bony research: how zebrafish are helping osteoarthritis research
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2019 Nobel Prize: sensing and adapting to oxygen
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Preventing Bad Law with UAR's Policy Work
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Our Favourite Posts From the Last 10 Years
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Animal Research Numbers in 2018
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Top Ten Organisations for Animal Research in 2018 Announced
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Animals Help us Understand Motor Neurone Disease
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How sickle cell protects against Malaria
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Celebrities impact public view of animal research
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Animals to humans, how blood saves lives
Every year, over 88 million blood donations save lives across the globe – enough to fill 32 Olympic-sized swimming pools. But good quality blood is in short supply so researchers seek to get around the worldwide blood shortage and make blood donations as we know them obsolete.
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Researching for a cure for multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most widespread disabling neurological condition of young adults, particularly women, around the world with around 2.3 million people living with MS globally. In MS, the protective insulating myelin sheaths that cover nerve fibres in the brain and the spinal cord are destroyed.
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Reddit AMA with Frances Wiseman
Understanding Animal Research hosted a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) with Dr Frances Wiseman from UCL to mark Dementia Awareness Week. Dr Wiseman is a senior research fellow at UCL’s Institute of Neurology and her research focuses on the early onset of dementia in people who have Down syndrome.
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Creating the European Animal Research Association
This is the fourth article in our 2019 series reviewing achievements during the first ten years of UAR. Wendy Jarrett, Chief Executive, looks back at how we set up the European Animal Research Association (EARA).
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Researching stroke using zebrafish
Dr Paul Kasher from Manchester University is trying to understand the immediate pathological responses to stroke in the brain and is screening for potential drugs to treat these responses by using zebrafish larvae to model what happens in a human.
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