Rebecca Drummond, PhD, is a post-doctoral scientist working at the National Institutes of Health, USA. Dr Drummond's research aims to understand why some people get fungal infections and others do not. To do this she must understand how the immune system prevents fungal infections and the risk factors that make an infection more likely. In … Continue reading Mice and the Mycobiome: How Animal Models Will Help Us Understand the Microbial World In Our Gut
Category: Guest Post
Jane Goodall and White Coat Waste are wrong about nicotine addiction research
This open letter is from scientists and leaders in the addiction research community. If you'd like to join the signatories listed below, please do in comments at the bottom of this article. Please also share with others with an interest in research on addiction. Smoking – and nicotine addiction – are sometimes easy targets for … Continue reading Jane Goodall and White Coat Waste are wrong about nicotine addiction research
Found in Translation: Using a Personal Tragedy to Drive Innovative Research
Kathryn Henley is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She studies pain in animals, currently pigs, trying to understand the different and often subtle signs that animals may be in pain. In this post, she explains why her research is important – both to the development of good animal welfare and … Continue reading Found in Translation: Using a Personal Tragedy to Drive Innovative Research
Veteran speaks up for the importance of allowing canine research to continue at the VA Medical Center
On July 26, 2017, the House of Representatives passed an amendment (proposed by Rep. Brat) to a spending bill that would ban all medical research at the Department of Veterans Affairs that could cause pain to dogs. The spending bill itself has not yet passed, however if such a bill was to be passed with the … Continue reading Veteran speaks up for the importance of allowing canine research to continue at the VA Medical Center
Guest Post: Predictability and Utility of Animal Models
This is a guest post on the utility of animal models in drug development, misconceptions about animal models, and alternative methods of drug development, by Dale M. Cooper, DVM, MS, Diplomate, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. Dr. Cooper has over 20 years of veterinary experience in private practice, and as a laboratory animal veterinarian … Continue reading Guest Post: Predictability and Utility of Animal Models
Asthma and Animal Research: A Public Health Perspective
As a public health researcher with a focus on behavior change and complex interventions, I am more interested in studying how to get children to adhere to their asthma medication regimen rather than the mechanisms of inflammatory asthma. I am currently studying the risk factors associated with asthma attacks in children, which include among others, … Continue reading Asthma and Animal Research: A Public Health Perspective
Of mice and mint: Animal research uncovers a previously unknown role for menthol in tobacco addiction
Cigarette addiction remains one of the common forms of drug addiction, worldwide; it is associated with remarkably elevated risk for heart disease, stroke and multiple types of cancer, explaining why nearly half a million Americans die each year from complications of smoking. A recent study by Brandon Henderson and his colleagues at the California Institute … Continue reading Of mice and mint: Animal research uncovers a previously unknown role for menthol in tobacco addiction
