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Understanding migraines: The blind leading the…err…rats
Chances are that you have either suffered from migraine yourself or have a family member or close friend who have, after all about 1 in 8 of us will suffer from migraine at some stage in our lifetime,...
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Of mice and mTOR: Can damaged spinal cords be tought to repair themselves?
There’s an interesting story on the BBC website about new research on nerve cell regeneration after spinal cord damage in mice, work undertaken by a team led by Dr. Zhigang He of the F.M. Kirby...
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From the bench and the bedside; how animal research is taming Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system – the brain and spinal cord – affecting about one person in every thousand in the USA. It is an inflammatory...
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Not Difficult To Grasp
Paralysis can have tremendous negative consequences for a person’s quality of life. In the US alone, there are more than 200 thousand people living with chronic spinal cord injury, which is a cause of...
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Human embryonic stem cells restore hearing in deaf gerbils
Ever since human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) were first cultivated by Dr. James Thompson at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1998, they have been at the centre of one of the most promising, and...
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Animal research leads to promising results for first clinical trial of stem...
The BBC reported yesterday that a small trial of a stem cell therapy developed by the biotech firm Reneuron has produced promising results, with 5 of the 9 patients enrolled in the trial showing...
View ArticleResearch Roundup: Fishy feelings, young blood and Alzheimer’s disease and more!
Welcome to this week’s Research Roundup. These Friday posts aim to inform our readers about the many stories that relate to animal research each week. Do you have an animal research story we should...
View ArticleEveryone Benefits When the Global Scientific Community Works Together
February 25th 2020 We have recently called for an end to xenophobia and international bias against scientists. For example, International Bias: Enough is Enough and Speaking of Research Calls for...
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