Depression and anxiety affect a significant proportion of the British population, yet the underlying causes behind these medical disorders remain elusive.
How do we learn to recognise new sensations and distinguish them from those we are already familiar with?
A medicine previously used to treat high blood pressure could now be applied to Alzheimer's disease following tests on GM mice.
A ‘fat gene' has been found to cause overeating in GM mice.
Scientists have found that the onset of labour is controlled by tiny molecules called microRNA.
World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes world.
Cancer tumours somehow escape the body's immune system, even when that immune system is primed by a vaccine designed to specifically target the cancer.
The dementia associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases is commonly associated with abnormal clumps of a protein (B-synuclein) in the brain.
Mice treated with a brain enzyme inhibitor performed better in memory tests than untreated mice.
Following the sentencing of six animal rights extremists on Monday, the new government made clear that it remains committed to countering criminal activity carried out in the name of animal rights.
A new video, How much animal research is done in the UK, is now available in our youtube site and in the video section in the resources page on this website.
The UN has just announced that rinderpest, a virus that used to cause deadly outbreaks in cattle, has been eradicated in the wild.
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