The Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) is to coordinate a major, new, EU funded, research project to create a Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science.
About 100 boys are born with muscular dystrophies every year in the UK.
Chemical safety in Europe is regulated in part by REACH*.
In Elizabethan times smallpox killed more people than TB, leprosy, plague and syphilis combined.
The UAR Council is delighted to announce that, following a rigorous selection process, we have recruited David Pruce as Interim Chief Executive to ensure that our important work continues and thrives.
Unlocking a key messenger protein in the body’s defences could be a first step to new treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases, suggest studies in mice with a form of the disease.
Are wild animals happier? That was the question posed by Christie Wilcox for a guest blog in Scientific American.
Scientists have created a new method to temporarily turn off the function of genes in mice.
From our archive - this video about the care of laboratory animals was produced by the Biomedical Research Trust in 2003.
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