A medicine currently used to treat fungal infections successfully slows tumour growth in mice, according to new research.
Parasites which cause sleeping sickness can be killed by altering the proteins that they are dependent on, studies on mice show.
The European Parliament and Council representatives have reached an agreement on the final details of the revisions made to Directive 86/609/EEC on animal experimentation.
An animal rights activist who was jailed last year for a firebombing plot against Oxford University in 2006 faces a retrial.
Damaged nerves in the brain are the cause of the eye disease glaucoma, rather than damage to the eye itself as was previously thought. This recent finding was the outcome of research using mice.
Stem cells can help repair severely damaged bones quickly, studies on sheep and humans have revealed.
Mice lacking the p21 gene can be healed scar free, a study has shown.
A new vaccine successfully blocks tapeworm infection in pigs, helping to break the cycle of infection between pigs and humans.
Freedom of Information (FoI) requests have recently been in the news, as many UK Universities have received a request for information from Luke Steele, an animal rights activist based in Yorkshire.
There are some strange animal-related things happening in Europe, but sometimes sense can prevail.
Pig models are becoming increasingly important in medical research into the causes of diseases, and have now shed new light on the causes of diabetes.
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