Scientists have found that the growth of Medulloblastoma brain tumour cells in mice can be significantly slowed using existing anti-viral medicines.
Scientists have successfully guided mouse stem cells to become specialised cells that build a protective coat around neurons.
Experiments on mice have identified the missing link that allows the nervous and immune systems to communicate.
Scientists have identified a signalling pathway used by neurons to protect against the cause of frontotemporal dementia, the second most common form of early-onset dementia after Alzheimer's disease.
Scientists working with mice have identified a molecule that appears to cause the dementia suffered by Alzheimer's patients.
Animal research is vitally important in science and medicine.
A team of scientists have developed a way of guiding nerve cells to set up complicated networks that mimic the ones found in the brain.
Animal Aid is running a campaign against medical charities because some of their funded work involves animals.
Scientists inserted two genes into cats: the first is taken from macaque monkeys and helps the cat resist the feline form of Aids; the second is a fluorescent gene from jellyfish that helps the researchers literally see where the added anti-aids gene is active.
A modified version of a chemical found in the Autumn crocus has shown exceptional promise as a tumour-killing agent in mice and will soon begin clinical trials in humans.
Scientists have identified the gene that allows the transmission of chronic pain.
Scientists have trialled a safer way of treating sleeping sickness in mice by modifying an existing medicine.
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