The Biomedical Animal Research News (BARN) Digest collates animal research news from Concordat on Openness signatories and UAR’s 150+ member organisations into one, easy to access, feed. These animal ...

- Kunihiro Hattori, Takehisa Kitazawa and Tomoyuki Igawa, (Chugai Pharmaceutical), received the 2026 Lasker DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for restoring deficient Factor VII activity in ...

UAR helps people to understand why animals are used in scientific research, and the best way to do that is through openness and transparency. In 2018 we have worked with partners to develop tips that ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Image: Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, Nursing Practice Specialist, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation © MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL ...

There is a long history of animals being sent to space. Still today, animals are regular inhabitants of the International Space Station. For twenty years now, the ISS has hosted astronauts conducting ...

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 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 ...

Sixty years ago (2 December 1961) the sedative drug thalidomide was withdrawn from use in the UK. After being on the market for five years as a treatment for morning sickness in pregnant women, it had ...

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, ...