Communications & media

Hype, hope and hybrids

The three-year public debate in the UK on animal-hybrid embryos was always a secondary issue for Understanding Animal Research and its forerunners, but an important one.

Medical drama

A TV dramatisation of Edwardian antivivisection protest on Sunday night in Casualty 1909 shows there's little new in the public debate over animal research and testing.

An Odyssey exploring the debate

A book to be published soon promises a considered, less polarised approach to the animal rights debate.

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Website spotlight: image library

Our online animal image library is one of the stand-out resources of the Understanding Animal Research website.

Website spotlight: A Researchers' Guide to Communications

Understanding Animal Research has a new booklet offering advice to researchers who want to be more open about their work.

Windows to the world

The regular column in The Times called 'The Shift', which profiles different jobs, today featured an animal technologist working at pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.