Staff blog
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Review of Animal Research in Medicine - 2014
Gene modification, stem cell therapies, tissue engineering
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STI Day
Animals get STIs and can model human diseases
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Do scientists dream of laboratory mice?
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The limited rights of Tommy the Chimp
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Animal welfare and pets
Pets suffer cruelty far to often.
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Northern Ireland Statistics on Animal Research 2013
Tom Holder, Campaigns Manager, gives a brief overview of the recently released animal research statistics for Northern Ireland.
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Health in old-age
UAR science writer Mia Rozenbaum reviews recent research into ageing and how it might be avoided.
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Back to bullying: anti-research activists revert to dirty tricks in Cambridge
UAR’s Head of Policy and Media Chris Magee considers a campaign group’s attempts to intimidate medical, veterinary and environmental researchers, and the lack of understanding underpinning their beliefs.
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Picture This
In today’s staff blog Policy and Communications Officer, Dr Liz Harley, argues that providing images of animal procedures is a vital part of openness.
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The human cost of animal rights
Head of Education and Outreach, John Meredith, considers the human cost of banning animal research.
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History of the pacemaker
In the 1950s, electrical engineer Wilson Greatbatch was working at Cornell University when he put the wrong resistor into a circuit he was developing for an oscillator, generating an electrical pulse.
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UAR staff blog: All about openness
Head of Engagement, Bella Williams, writes about the need for openness to be driven by conversations as well as by organisational commitment.
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Discussing harms and benefits
Tom Holder, campaigns manager, discusses the importance of open communication of both the benefits and harms of animal research.
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Blood transfusions: an animal research success story
UAR Education Officer Stuart Rogers looks at the animal research involved in the development of blood transfusions
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Do yes / no debates prevent improvements in regulating research?
I was recently visiting a friend in Stockholm. We were wandering across the Djurgårdsbron and chatting about how my work was going when we came across a police poster warning of a demonstration march to Djurgården.
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