Jan - June 2010

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  Walnuts to fight prostate cancer

  25th March 2010

  Eating walnuts as part of a balanced diet may reduce the size and growth of prostate tumours, a study on mice has shown.

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  Glaucoma begins with brain nerve deterioration

  22nd March 2010

  Damaged nerves in the brain are the cause of the eye disease glaucoma, rather than damage to the eye itself as was previously thought. This recent finding was the outcome of research using mice.

• Absent gene heals mice without scarring

  19th March 2010

  Mice lacking the p21 gene can be healed scar free, a study has shown.

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  Faster repair for damaged bones

  19th March 2010

  Stem cells can help repair severely damaged bones quickly, studies on sheep and humans have revealed.

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  Mice vote Green

  19th March 2010

  Simon Jenkins, writing in The Guardian on Friday, asserted that giving animals rights leads to moral chaos. His piece, both amusing and serious, alludes to a recent bit of fun in the pro-hunting magazine, Country Life, which speculates about which political party different animals would vote for.

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  Tapeworm vaccine helps pigs and humans

  17th March 2010

  A new vaccine successfully blocks tapeworm infection in pigs, helping to break the cycle of infection between pigs and humans.

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  FoI and lessons for records management

  16th March 2010

  Freedom of Information (FoI) requests have recently been in the news, as many UK Universities have received a request for information from Luke Steele, an animal rights activist based in Yorkshire.

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  UK public attitudes - not much change

  12th March 2010

  Public opinion research released this week shows that public attitudes to animal research haven't changed much in the UK over the last few years.

• Mouse model develops human liver

  9th March 2010

  Mice could be more useful in the study of hepatitis than previously thought, as research into the possibility of growing a human liver in a mouse has proven successful.

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  This little piggy

  8th March 2010

  There are some strange animal-related things happening in Europe, but sometimes sense can prevail.