Scientific research using animals is vital to our continued and improved understanding of human and animal health. Animals ...

It sounds like something out of science fiction. Scientists successfully engineered human blood cells into immature sperm, and incubated them inside a tiny pouch grown on a mouse’s kidney. The ...

In the era of the Concordat on Openness, attention often centres on institutional commitments. But meaningful openness depends on the work of individuals too, those researchers and technicians whose ...

On 17 February 2026 UAR policy advisor Chris Magee appeared on BBC One’s The One Show, taking part in a discussion about animal research and the non-animal alternatives to it. The show kicked off with ...

Animal research, or animal testing, is the scientific study of animals, usually in a laboratory, for the purpose of gaining new biological knowledge or solving specific medical, veterinary, or ...

As part of the research effort to develop lab-grown human organs to aid the study of kidney diseases and to mitigate the world transplant organ shortage, scientists have successfully produced the most ...

In the second of a two-part series, filmed by the UAR team, we investigate the research carried out by Professor Emma Robinson at the University of Bristol. We learn how Emma and her team are studying ...

It was a great pleasure for UAR to announce the latest winners of the annual awards for openness made to signatories of the Concordat on Openness at a ceremony held at the Royal College of Physicians ...

Sometimes impactful science can come from the most unlikely experiments. The Ig Nobel prizes, are awarded every year to "honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think".

Today (Thursday, 23 October 2025) the government has released its annual statistics on the number of animals used in scientific, medical and veterinary research in 2024. The figures show that ...

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 ...

In May 2024, medical history was quietly made in a hospital in Guangzhou, China. For the first time ever, surgeons successfully transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human ...