How do you re-animate paralysed limbs? A new approach being trialled on genetically modified mice uses flashes of light.
186 chimps currently housed in unofficial retirement in the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico are to be re-housed in the Southwest National Primate Research Center.
New research shows female mice, monkeys and humans appear to metabolise the oestrogen-like chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in similar ways.
Yesterday the President of the European Parliament, and the Belgian State Secretary (representing the EU countries) put pen to paper and signed the new EU Directive 8869/10 in the use of animals in scientific research.
Retinal cells, necessary for colour vision, have been successfully transplanted into blind mice.
Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember objects and learn to navigate mazes better than normal mice.
The Tasmanian Devil is at risk of extinction in the wild due to a transmissible cancer passed on when one animal bites another.
Diabetes can cause the death of nerves in the body's extremities, a condition known as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).
As a normal mammalian body grows, hundreds of motor neurons grow from the spinal cord to the muscles they will control.
The public broadly supports research on animals containing human material, according to an Ipsos Mori survey of 1,042 people.
Today the European Parliament agreed on the final text of the new Directive concerning the use of animals in research.
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