Research Roundup: Link between body temperature and obesity found, key brain protein implicated in Multiple Sclerosis and more!

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Research Roundup: Skin bacteria may protect against cancer, rats used to detect TB and more!

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Alzheimer’s researchers win world’s top brain research prize

The one million Euro Brain Prize, awarded by the Lundbeck Foundation in Denmark has been announced. Last year's winners, received the prize for their work understanding the mechanisms of reward in the brain. This year, the prize has gone to four neuroscientists for their groundbreaking research on the genetic and molecular basis of Alzheimer’s disease. … Continue reading Alzheimer’s researchers win world’s top brain research prize

Research Roundup: Clinical trials planned for promising stroke treatment, using stem cells to treat spinal cord injury and more!

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Research Roundup: Human-sheep chimeras and the organ crisis, clinical trials for an Ebola vaccine developed and tested in animals and more!

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Diversity may improve the reproducibility of pre-clinical animal research

Reproducibility – or the ability to obtain similar experimental results across replicate studies – in pre-clinical research is essential to the success of clinical trials. While this topic has garnered much attention in popular press, it is one that is sometimes not well understood and, other times, misrepresented to mean that all science is in … Continue reading Diversity may improve the reproducibility of pre-clinical animal research

Research Roundup: Considering the bleak future of animal research without primates, heroin vaccine brought one step closer to availability and more!

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Research Roundup: A link between food and breast cancer found, the role of the small intestine in processing sugars and more!

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