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 ...
Image: Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, Nursing Practice Specialist, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation © MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL ...
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 ...
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 ...
STIs, or sexually transmitted infections, are diseases that are passed on through unprotected sex or genital contact. All animals, including humans, are vulnerable. More than 200 different STIs have ...
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, ...
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honours ground-breaking science and recognises the essential contribution of animal research. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were ...
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 ...
In 2020, animal research has been essential for developing lifesaving vaccines and treatments for Covid-19. Ferrets and macaque monkeys were used to test the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines, ...
Recently, many questions have been asked about the use of the forced swim test (also known as the FST or Porsolt Swim Test) in research into antidepressants and depression. These questions relate to: ...
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