Communications & media

21 Belgian research organisations unite in support of animal research

British public misled over cosmetic tests

The Zika fight: monkeys, and mice, and mosquitoes

Overview of Zika and the animals use in the research

This week in animal research 18/03/16

Reversing cancer in frogs

Pro-Test 10 Year Anniversary

Today is the 10-year anniversary of Pro-Test, a rally that saw students and academics stand up to animal rights extremism at the University of Oxford.

The year of anniversaries

Colin Blakemore Reddit Ask Me Anything

Sir Blakemore did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit

Telling stories with numbers

Animal use statistics are an easy target for anti-groups media work

Animal research on trial

Does the recent death in a clinical trial in France make us reconsider animal testing?

Singing mice

Monitoring ultrasound for animal husbandry and scientific discovery

This year in animal research - 2015

A subjective review of the years animal research stories

79th Paget Lecture and Second Annual Openness Awards 2015

On Monday evening Understanding Animal Research hosted the 79th Paget Lecture and the second annual Openness Awards.

Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, 2014

Home Office statistics released 22 October 2015

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been jointly won by Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for “mechanistic studies of DNA repair".

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015

Won by William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu.