On Thursday 26 January, we learned that Communities Secretary Eric Pickles had agreed with the recommendations of a planning appeal inspector and dismissed the planning appeal by B&K animal breeders in East Yorkshire.
On the principal that you can’t really understand something until you have tried it yourself, the UAR education team has been encouraging young people up and down the country...
Continuing our video series on the patient benefits of animal research, a patient interviews a scientist on how stem cells, based on animal research, may be used to repair hearts.
Recent findings that a gene associated with schizophrenia also causes abnormal sleep patterns in mice have led scientists to ponder whether the mental illness and sleep disturbance could be genetically linked.
New research suggests that understanding provided by parasitic worms could be used to treat serious lung injury caused by infections.
Scientists have found that omega-3 fatty acids can help speed up recovery from nerve damage.
Before January 1922, a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes was in effect a death sentence; many died of starvation.
Scientists have developed a new strategy for fighting infectious diseases.
Scientists have uncovered the secret behind the rapid progression of retinoblastoma, a rare type of childhood eye cancer.
By transplanting cells from the blood of young mice, scientists have successfully stimulated stem cells to repair the damaged nerve tissue of old mice with multiple sclerosis.
Scientists have created a vaccine that protects rhesus monkeys from infection by the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a relative of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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