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.
Mice infected with a genetically modified relative of the tuberculosis bacterium became immune to tuberculosis, a new study has shown.
Scientists have developed a computer model that predicts the effect of anti-arrhythmic medicines on the heart.
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