An interaction between two proteins has been found to be essential for the development of the most common form of brain cancer.
We award Paul Vallely of the Independent newspaper for his excellent article - Of Mice and Medicine.
Scientists have engineered a human clotting factor into a safe and effective treatment that cured haemophilia in mice.
Tests in both rats and patients have shown that chemotherapy delivered through the milk ducts of the nipple is more effective and leads to fewer side-effects than intravenous drug delivery.
Several peers confirmed their belief in the need for animal research in biomedical research, during a debate in the House of Lords yesterday (24 October 2011).
Subtitled In defence of animal experiments, the Independent published a four-page article in Saturday's Magazine about how animal research is 'transforming human lives'.
Squamous cell skin carcinoma is the second most common skin cancer after melanomas, affecting approximately 10,000 people in the UK each year.
Studies of patient tissue and experiments using mice have linked a specific enzyme to both infertility and miscarriage.
Researchers have shown that they can treat sickle-cell anaemia in mice by switching on a haemoglobin gene usually only active before birth.
The article by Emma James in the latest Wellcome News looks into why zebra fish have become so important in genetics research.
Stem cells taken from a rat's brain using a simple procedure have been made to produce insulin and used to cure diabetes in the same rat.
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