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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

It’s not lions, tigers, bears or even snakes that cause the most deaths from animals worldwide, but the tiny mosquito. This annoying, biting, long-legged insect is not just a nuisance, it carries many ...

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

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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 ...