The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for the work that led to optogenetics, a method that shows how nerve cells shape memories, ...
Scientific research using animals is vital to our continued and improved understanding of human and animal health. Animals ...
This is an exciting opportunity to join Understanding Animal Research (UAR) at a time when clear, consistent, and evidence-informed science communication matters more than ever. As our communications ...
How can it be right to use an animal for research where we could consider it unethical to use a human being? This is a fundamental question that confronts anybody who benefits from research using ...
Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarises the millennia-old relationship between humans and rodents. Native to the Indian subcontinent, the mouse followed the migration ...
On Friday, 19 July 2024, the European Commission published its ‘Summary Report on the statistics on the use of animals for scientific purposes in the Member States of the European Union and Norway in ...
Where are the female mice? The female presence in labs is completely under-represented, and I'm not talking about humans here, but mice. The most used animal model in laboratories across the world to ...
Over the last century, there has been an alarming increase in the number, frequency and diversity of zoonotic disease outbreaks. Caused by the spill over of pathogens from animal hosts to people, ...
Image: Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, Nursing Practice Specialist, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation © MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL ...
There has been wide reporting on a new study published in PLOS BIOLOGY that seems to contain a lot of old information. Swiss and UK researchers found that “just 5% of drugs” that had been tested on ...
At Understanding Animal Research, we make it our mission to keep you informed about developments in the world of animal research. To finish the year, here is a pick of our top animal research stories ...
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