Research & medical benefits

Plastics are ruining the sex-lives of worms and could be affecting yours too

To study the brain we need monkeys

Respiratory disease: asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Drug Discovery with Venom

Bony research: how zebrafish are helping osteoarthritis research

Animals Help us Understand Motor Neurone Disease

How sickle cell protects against Malaria

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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.