Staff blog

Review of Animal Research in Medicine - 2014

Gene modification, stem cell therapies, tissue engineering

STI Day

Animals get STIs and can model human diseases

Do scientists dream of laboratory mice?

The limited rights of Tommy the Chimp

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.

Health in old-age

UAR science writer Mia Rozenbaum reviews recent research into ageing and how it might be avoided.

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.

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.

The human cost of animal rights

Head of Education and Outreach, John Meredith, considers the human cost of banning animal research.

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.

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.

Discussing harms and benefits

Tom Holder, campaigns manager, discusses the importance of open communication of both the benefits and harms of animal research.

Blood transfusions: an animal research success story

UAR Education Officer Stuart Rogers looks at the animal research involved in the development of blood transfusions

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.