Research & medical benefits
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Respiratory disease: asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Drug Discovery with Venom
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Bony research: how zebrafish are helping osteoarthritis research
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Animals Help us Understand Motor Neurone Disease
By Mandy Spencer, Research Information Co-ordinator at the Motor Neurone Disease Association
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How sickle cell protects against Malaria
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of people around the globe and is the 4th leading cause of deaths in children in many developing countries.
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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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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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How do you study stress in an animal?
“When you do stress research you need to think about two elements: how do I induce stress, how do I measure the consequences of it?”
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Haemophilia, the royal disease
Haemophilia is a rare, inherited bleeding disorder in which blood cannot clot normally. Long known as the "Royal Disease", haemophilia affected generations of royal families in England, Prussia and Russia, undoubtedly changing the course of history.
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10 years of rat research – how stroke studies have evolved
Prof Allan Stuart has been studying rats in the context of stroke research for over 25 years now.
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The Nipah Virus – a rare but deadly disease
Nipah virus kills people, at the moment outbreaks are rare
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Recent advances in cancer research
Immunotherapy, mice and treatment
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Primate research in 2018
Heart disease, vaccines, and Parkinson's
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Northern Ireland Animal Research Numbers, 2017
2017 animal research numbers for Northern Ireland have been published
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