This page serves as an index of all our scientific posts describing research which has used animal models. We have categorised them by broad categories of diseases. Use the links below to jump to the section you want. Also check out our Research Indexed by Species.
- Addiction
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Autism
- Comparative psychology, cognition, and behavior
- Blindness
- Cancers
- Chronic Pain
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Deafness
- Diabetes
- Down’s Syndrome
- Ebola
- Genetic Diseases / Gene Therapy
- Genetic Modification
- Heart Disease
- Hepatitis
- HIV/AIDS
- Hospital bugs
- HPV
- In Vitro Fertilization
- Malaria
- Meningitis
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Neonatal and Prenatal Care
- Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer’s / Parkinson’s / Huntington’s / ALS)
- Paralysis / Spinal Cord Damage
- Sepsis
- Stem cell treatment
- Stroke
- Tissue Engineering
- Transplant
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Vaccines
- Veterinary Treatment
- Viral Respiratory Diseases / Flu
- Zika
- Other
- Nobel Prizes and other Awards
- Of mice and mint: Animal research uncovers a previously unknown role for menthol in tobacco addiction – May 30th 2017
- Why is alcohol research with nonhuman animals essential? – July 14th 2014
- Speaking of Addiction Research – April 15th 2014
- Understanding addiction: NIDA article highlights contribution of animal research – March 21st 2014
- Characterising high fructose corn syrup self-administration in laboratory rats – January 30th 2014
- Explaining Addiction Research – July 25th 2011
- Obesity, Smoking and Addiction – April 18th 2011
- Addiction Research as an Example of Translational Biomedical Research – January 22nd 2010
- From Mouse of Monkey to Human: The Story of Rituximab (Rheumatoid Arthritis) – July 13th 2009
- Asthma and Animal Research: A Public Health Perspective – June 26th 2017
- Taming the Wold: a new treatment for Lupus – March 24th 2011
- Magic Bullets and Monoclonals: A Breakthrough in Bioscience (Cancer/Autoimmune) – March 22nd 2010
- Macaque study explores best route of oxytocin administration – February 12th 2016
- Child health benefits from studies of infant monkeys – Part 1 (Autism)– October 9th 2014
- The similarity of Human and Animal Models (Autism/OCD) – February 5th 2009
Comparative psychology, cognition, and behavior:
- Where should US Chimpanzees live? – December 5th 2015
- How do birds see the world? – August 27th 2015
- Bridging the gap: Monkey studies shed light on nature, nurture, and how experiences get under the skin – June 4th 2012
- Stem cell therapy allows blind to see again, thanks to animal research – October 15th 2014
- Visionary Science: Gene therapy saves sight thanks to animal research (choroideremia) – January 17th 2014
- Amblyopia, kittens and BUAV deception – July 27th 2012
- Restoring vision in night blindness: Mice point way to stem cell therapy – April 27th 2012
- Animal research unleashes the power of human embryonic stem cells (Stargart’s Macular Dystrophy) – November 7th 2011
- Bling Dogs Lead Researchers to Treatments (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – September 8th 2009
- Gene Therapy for blindness (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – April 20th 2008
- Of mice and mammaries, part 1: There’s something in the milk – October 9th 2017
- Does talcum powder cause ovarian cancer? Weight up the human and animal studies – September 5th 2017
- How zebrafish help advance cancer research – March 2nd 2016
- HPV vaccines and cervical cancer – a success in animals is a success for humans – February 23rd 2016
- Obama’s cancer initiative and animal research – February 5th 2016
- Lung cancer immunotherapy, from PD-1 knockout to clinical trials – May 30th 2015
- Peritoneal Carcinosis and HIPEC: A second chance for patients, thanks to animal research – October 20th 2014
- Child health benefits from studies of infant monkeys – Part 1 (childhood leukaemia)– October 9th 2014
- Cancer Immunotherapy: A breakthrough made through animal research – December 20th 2013
- Mice and Mustard Gas: A History of Chemotherapy – November 20th 2013
- Defeating Leukemia: A smile that says “Thank the mice” – December 12th 2012
- Cancer stem cells: Mouse studies lead to paradigm shift in cancer research – August 2nd 2012
- So what can a growing fly teach us about skin cancer – June 13th 2012
- What GM mice can tell us about pancreatic cancer (and medical charities) – May 1st 2012
- The end of cancer? A personal view (oesophageal cancer) – December 15th 2011
- A breakthrough against Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia … thank the mice! – September 13th 2011
- Mice help scientists to understand cancer genome – March 25th 2011
- Mice help identify promising prostate cancer treatment – October 12th 2010
- Mice help develop molecular imaging of tumors – September 20th 2010
- Herceptin: When personalized medicine and animal research meet – September 2nd 2010
- RNAi: Send in the Nanobots (Melanoma) – March 25th 2010
- Magic Bullets and Monoclonals: A Breakthrough in Bioscience (Breast cancer) – March 22nd 2010
- Mice pave the way to a cord blood transplant advance (Leukemia) – February 15th 2010
- From Mouse of Monkey to Human: The Story of Rituximab (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) – July 13th 2009
- Can we protect the brain against tumor metastasis? – June 15th 2009
- Shedding some light on the dark side of stem cells (Cancer stem cells) – February 10th 2009
- Taking a BiTE out of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma – August 25th 2008
- Avoiding the Side Effects of Radiotherapy – April 11th 2008
- Found in Translation: Using a Personal Tragedy to Drive Innovative Research – August 30th 2017
- CRPS Animal Models Explained – June 18th 2015
- Clinical trial success for Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy: built on animal research – July 3rd 2015
- A pig model of cystic fibrosis – September 29th 2008
- Human embryonic stem cells restore hearing in deaf gerbils – September 14th 2012
- The 21st Century Scientist (Usher Syndrome) – March 16th 2012
- Research with dogs develops an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes – July 3rd 2017
- Child health benefits from studies of infant monkeys – Part 1 (diabetes / childhood obesity)– October 9th 2014
- Animal research and diabetes: Now the truth must be told – Part 2 – November 13th 2013
- Animal research and diabetes: Now the truth must be told – Part 1 – November 12th 2013
- A new drug to treat type II diabetes: Thank the …Gila monster? – May 2nd 2013
- From science to miracle in 2 years: The discovery of insulin – August 3rd 2011
- Lighting the way to new treatments (Type II) – June 29th 2011
- Changing cellular career paths (Type I) – September 1st 2008
- Synergy – May 27th 2009
- Pregnancy Kits to Ebola Treatment: Medical tests & disease treatments depend on animal products – August 7th 2014
- Ebola virus vaccine developed to protect wild gorillas and chimpanzees – May 26th 2014
- A shield against the nightmare: Ebola virus vaccine success – May 21st 2010
Genetic Diseases / Gene Therapy:
- From clinic to mouse to clinic: New HIV gene therapy shows promise – March 6th 2014
- Visionary Science: Gene therapy saves sight thanks to animal research (choroideremia) – January 17th 2014
- Successful gene therapy for haemophilia A in dogs – Humans next! – November 22nd 2013
- Trial of gene therapy in heart failure launches following success in rats and pigs – September 6th 2013
- Italian Gene Therapy Success – Thanks to animal research (metachromatic leukodystrophy / Wiskott Aldrich) – July 12th 2013
- Treating Progeria; How GM mice give hope to some very special children – April 11th 2013
- New gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases a step closer thanks to ONPRC – October 25th 2012
- Mouse study points to effective treatment of Fragile X syndrome – April 18th 2012
- Merry Christmas for Patients for Hemophilia B – December 22nd 2011
- Advancing gene therapy, debunking AR propaganda (Leber’s congential amaurosis) – February 18th 2011
- Animal research: At the forefront of modern medicine (Beta thalassemia) – September 17th 2010
- Pompe disease – a starring role for animal research – January 25th 2010
- Breakthrough of the Year (almost!) (SCID) – December 21st 2009
- Gene therapy on the brain (cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy)– November 16th 2009
- Bling Dogs Lead Researchers to Treatments (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – September 8th 2009
- Gene Therapy for blindness (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – April 20th 2008
- Why do we use Genetically Modified Animals? – November 8th 2012
- How nerve cells reach their niche – February 2nd 2012
- Mice, rats, and the secrets of the genome – August 17th 2010
- The Monkey of the Baskervilles – May 20th 2009
- Pioneering non-beating heart transplant success – thanks to animal research – March 27th 2015
- Using large animals to assess safety of medical devices – July 22nd 2013
- Animal research helps to halve deaths from coronary heart disease – June 26th 2013
- Dogs in medical research (Heart failure) – May 2nd 2012
- Can stem cells repair broken hearts? Thanks to animal research we may soon find out! – February 16th 2012
- Mice show the way to improved stem cell therapy for heart attacks – September 21st 2011
- A fish named Hope – February 16th 2011
- Heart failure breakthrough: animal research paved the way – August 31st 2010
- Protecting a broken heart: the discovery of remote ischemic preconditioning – March 5th 2010
- Mice uncover the secrets of Congenital Heart Defect – December 14 2009
- Mending a Broken Heart (heart damage) – August 31st 2009
- Lasker awards highlight the importance of animal models (heart attack/stroke) – September 17th 2008
- Animal research behind the headlines (Blood clots) – May 1st 2008
- 2016 Lasker Awards show importance of animal research (Hep C) – September 27th 2016

- Truvada prevents HIV infection in high-risk individuals! A clinical success built on animal research – September 11th 2015
- Child health benefits from studies of infant monkeys – Part 1 (HIV)– October 9th 2014
- From clinic to mouse to clinic: New HIV gene therapy shows promise – March 6th 2014
- Remembering a hero of the struggle against HIV/AIDS – December 1st 2011
- Mice and macaques pave the way for effective HIV vaccines – September 29th 2011
- Good news on HIV prevention – thanks to animal studies – July 18th 2011
- Breakthroughs of the year 2010: Looking back and looking ahead – January 10th 2011
- Microbicide gel cuts HIV infection rates… thank the monkeys – July 21st 2010
- Scientists discover AIDS in Chimpanzees – July 25th 2009
- How Monkeys Help to Prevent HIV Infection – March 27th 2009
- Fighting the scourges of humanity (Malaria/Alzheimer’s/AIDS) – December 17th 2008
- From the Nobel Prize to the clinic through animal research (HIV/HPV) – October 6th 2008
- Mice aid development of new weapon against HIV – August 11th 2008
- Fighting hospital superbugs (Clostridium difficule) – November 17th 2008
- HPV vaccines and cervical cancer – a success in animals is a success for humans – February 23rd 2016
- From the Nobel Prize to the clinic through animal research (HIV/HPV) – October 6th 2008
- SYR: The case for using large animal models to study reproduction – November 9th 2016
- From Macaques to Humans: UK regulator gives cautious thumbs up to advanced IVF techniques to prevent mitochondrial disease – March 21st 2013
- OHSU Rhesus macaque embryo research to improve preimplantatioin genetic diagnosis – May 4th 2012
- Bob Edwards wins 2010 Nobel Prize for developing IVF: Thank the mice, rabbits, hamsters… – October 4th 2010
- Animal Research Benefits Mom and Baby Alike (IVF/Contraceptives/Neonatal care) – June 11th 2010
- Nobel Prizes 2015 – Protecting People against Parasites! – October 5th 2015
- George is OK: Thank the men who stare down microscopes – January 26th 2011
- Fighting the scourges of humanity (Malaria/Alzheimer’s/AIDS) – December 17th 2008
- Universal Meningitis B vaccine nears approval by European regulators – thank the mice (and the scientists)! – November 22nd 2012
- A vaccine against meningitis B – May 18th 2008
- SYR: Animal Research and MS – September 24th 2013
- From the bench to the bedside; how animal research is taming Multiple Sclerosis – December 15th 2010
- Finding Animal Research in Medical News (ALS/DMD/MS) – May 7th 2010
- How mice helped develop a new drug for MS – June 23rd 2008
- Promising clinical trial result for exon skipping in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – August 1st 2011
- Finding Animal Research in Medical News (ALS/DMD/MS) – May 7th 2010
- Progress towards a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – March 23rd 2009
- Stem cell hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy – July 17th 2008
- Child health benefits from studies of infant monkeys – Part 1 (Pre-Natal care /preterm birth)– October 9th 2014
- Nobel Prize 2014: Fortune favours the prepared mind (premature infants) – October 6th 2014
- Pregnancy Kits to Ebola Treatment: Medical tests & disease treatments depend on animal products – August 7th 2014
- Caring for sick babies: Science versus animal rights – February 11th 2011
- Animal Research Benefits Mom and Baby Alike (IVF/Contraceptives/Neonatal care) – June 11th 2010
- A Noble cause: Protecting babies brains with Xenon (oxygen starvation) – April 16th 2010
- Cool heads required! (perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy) – October 9th 2009
Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer’s / Parkinson’s / Huntington’s / ALS):
- Research using sheep leads to a new device to record and stimulate the brain – August 22nd 2016
- Exciting cells and controlling heartbeats – could optogenetics create drug-free treatments? (Alzheimer’s) – April 7th 2016
- The importance of animals in neuroscience research – December 10th 2015
- Preventing neuronal death: the future of stroke therapy – November 18th 2015
- Nobel Prize 2014: Fortune favours the prepared mind (Parkinson’s)– October 6th 2014
- Parkinson’s patient meet the marmosets – September 4th 2012
- Good, bad, useful? Reflections on animals models for Parkinson’s disease research – April 2nd 2012
- A Brief History of Deep Brain Stimulation (Parkinson’s) – March 15th 2012
- Animal Models of Dystonia – Part II (Parkinson’s)– November 13th 2011
- Finding Animal Research in Medical News (ALS/DMD/MS) – May 7th 2010
- Fighting the scourges of humanity (Malaria/Alzheimer’s/AIDS) – December 17th 2008
- Attacking Alzheimer’s disease from every angle – July 21st 2008
- A monkey model of Huntington’s disease – May 28th 2008
Paralysis / Spinal Cord Damage:
- Paralyzed man walks again after olfactory cell transplant, thanks to animal research – October 21st 2014
- Kicking off a new era for neuroprosthetics, or just the warm-up? – June 12th 2014
- Spinal cord stimulation restores monkey’s ability to move paralysed hand – May 19th 2014
- Paralysis breakthrough – electrical stimulation enables four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs – May 8th 2014
- Brain-machine interface success allows paralysed woman to feed herself for the first time in a decade – December 17th 2012
- Moving from rats to patients: swift progress for electrical stimulation in treating paralysis – December 5th 2012
- Paralysed dogs walk again thanks to nasal stem cell transplants … and Professor Raisman’s rats – November 19th 2012
- Swiss scientists restore voluntary locomotion in paralysed rats – June 1st 2012
- Not difficult to grasp – May 16th 2012
- A paralyzed man touches his girlfriend’s hand … thanks to animal research! – October 13th 2011
- A paralyzed man stands again… thanks to animal research! – May 20th 2011
- Spider silk used to repair nerve damage in sheep – March 7th 2011
- Transplanted astrocytes repair spinal cord damage in rat – March 4th 2011
- Overcoming paralysis: From Monkey to Man at the University of Pittsburgh – February 21st 2011
- Of mice and mTOR: Can damaged spinal cords be taught to repair themselves? – August 10th 2010
- Working toward a cure for paralysis – October 5th 2009
- A new era for embryonic stem cells (spinal cord injury) – January 23rd 2009
- Returning control to paralyzed limbs one nerve at a time – October 26th 2008
- Monkeys, Robots and the University of Pittsburgh – New hope for paralysis victims? – May 20th 2008
- Septic shock: Mice show way to a new treatment – June 7th 2010
- Primate research and twenty years of stem cell firsts – January 7th 2015
- Stem cell therapy allows blind to see again, thanks to animal research – October 15th 2014
- Animal research brings hope to the girl whose skin never heals (epidermolysis bullosa)– December 4th 2013
- First human stem cells created through cloning …thank Mitalipov’s macaques! – May 15th 2013
- Brain Awareness Week: The Role of Animals in Neuroscience – March 14th 2013
- Paralysed dogs walk again thanks to nasal stem cell transplants … and Professor Raisman’s rats – November 19th 2012
- Hope for young cancer victims as stem cell transplantation restores functioning sperm in monkeys – November 2nd 2012
- Reprogrammed frog and mouse cells win the 2012 Nobel Prize – October 8th 2012
- Millennium Technology Prize 2012: Mouse stem cell research heralds a new era in biomedical research – June 14th 2012
- Can stem cells repair broken hearts? Thanks to animal research we may soon find out! – February 16th 2012
- Animal research unleashes the power of human embryonic stem cells – November 7th 2011
- FASEB Excellence in Science Award for Stem Cell Pioneer – June 21st 2010
- Finding Animal Research in Medical News (ALS/DMD/MS) – May 7th 2010
- Mice pave the way to a cord blood transplant advance (Leukemia) – February 15th 2010
- A new era for embryonic stem cells (spinal cord injury) – January 23rd 2009
- Stem cell hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy – July 17th 2008
- Device to help stroke patients to recover moves from primates to people – October 20th 2016
- Preventing neuronal death: the future of stroke therapy – November 18th 2015
- Animal research leads to promising results for first clinical trial of stem cell therapy for stroke – May 28th 2013
- Hypothermia in stroke: EuroHYP moves from rats to man – March 19th 2012
- Animal studies point to clinical trial of hypothermia for stroke victims – January 28th 2011
- Research with sheep demonstrates utility of new synthetic blood vessels – October 6th 2016
- To engineer a new heart, first you take a pig… – July 4th 2013
- Understanding Cyborg Jellyfish – August 7th 2012
- Ignoring the role of animals in medicine is shortsighted – August 30th 2011
- How to build a beating heart – February 7th 2011
- Is tissue engineering poised to transform heart bypass surgery – February 4th 2011
- Hopping rabbits herald breakthrough in tissue engineering – July 20th 2010
- How to build a lung – June 25th 2010
- From Science Fiction to Science Fact – July 6th 2009
- From organ development to tissue engineering – December 8th 2008
- Thomas Starzl (1926-2017) – The man who saved countless humans using animal research – March 7th 2017
- Pioneering non-beating heart transplant success – thanks to animal research – March 27th 2015
- Liver transplant breakthrough set to save thousands of lives: Thank the pigs! – March 20th 2013
- Lasker Awards 2012: How animal research empowered the pioneers of liver transplantation – November 8th 2012
- The new face of transplant surgery thanks to animal research – March 28th 2012
- Fighting the White Death: A new treatment for drug resistant TB – August 1st 2012
- Defeating diseases of the developing world: tuberculosis and Chikungunya fever – January 29th 2010
- A better, safer TB vaccine – November 7th 2008
- Last surviving member of Pittsburgh polio vaccine team dies at 96 – May 2nd 2017
- HPV vaccines and cervical cancer – a success in animals is a success for humans – February 23rd 2016
- One step closer to a vaccine for cytomegalovirus: Monkeys transmit CMV the same way as humans – October 27th 2015
- Cotton Rats, Calves and Clinical Trials: New RSV vaccine shows great promise – August 13th 2015
- Thank You Doctor Salk! (and Drs Enders, Bodian, Landsteiner, Sabin…) – October 28th 2014
- Albert Sabin and the monkeys who gave summer back to the children (polio) – February 1st 2011
- Shots without jabs: The future vaccination – July 19th 2010
- A shield against the nightmare: Ebola virus vaccine success – May 21st 2010
- A better, safer TB vaccine – November 7th 2008
- A vaccine against meningitis B – May 18th 2008
- Universal Meningitis B vaccine nears approval by European regulators – thank the mice (and the scientists)! – Nov 22nd 2012
- Found in Translation: Using a Personal Tragedy to Drive Innovative Research – August 30th 2017
- Animal research saved both my dogs (chronic lymphocytic leukemia / CDS) – August 26th 2013
- Paralysed dogs walk again thanks to nasal stem cell transplants … and Professor Raisman’s rats – November 19th 2012
- Using Animals for Animals – Emma’s Story (bilateral cranial ligament tears) – March 16th 2011
- “The biggest achievement of veterinary history” (Rinderpest) – October 15th 2010
Viral Respiratory Diseases / Flu:
- Why we haven’t cured the common cold – a response to PETA’s science advisor, Dr. Julia Baines – August 8th 2016
- Fighting the Flu – May 1st 2009
- A passive defence against the flu? – February 25th 2009
- Calming the storm … while killing the virus (SARS/H5N1) – June 6th 2008
- Calming the Storm: Learning from Research (SARS/H5N1)– April 19th 2008
- Zika research in nonhuman primates critical as fears among pregnant women, families grow – July 12th 2016
- Mice and the Mycobiome: How animal models will help us understand the microbial world in our gut (irritable bowel disease) – September 25th 2017
- Cameron Bryant: Triangulating the genes leading to bing eating – May 11th 2017
- SYR: How sheep can help us understand why girls are reaching puberty at younger ages (puberty) – November 14 2016
- Scott Kelly and Beyond: How rodents are being utilized by NASA and the ISS – March 7th 2016
- Sex, drugs and the validity of the animal model (sexual dysfunction)– October 23rd 2015
- How to help girls with Rett syndrome, and strike a blow against extremism! – March 25th 2014
- Liviya’s Story (Aplastic Anemia) – April 2nd 2013
- Interfacing with the nervous system: Studies in rats and mice show the way – August 14th 2012
- Natural antibiotic casts a net against bacteria (inflammatory bowel syndrome) – July 31st 2012
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Lessons from Monkeys – May 7th 2012
- Animal Models of Dystonia – Part I – November 9th 2011
- Have no fear, mice are here (PTSD) – June 15th 2011
- Mice, nanotechnology and inflammatory bowel disease – October 11th 2010
- Understanding migraines: The blind leading the …err… rats – January 18th 2010
Nobel Prizes and other Awards:
- 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Fruit Fly Research – October 2nd 2017
- Winners of 2017 Brain Prize announced – Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan and Wolfram Schultz (mechanisms of reward) – March 6th 2017
- Nobel Prize 2016 – how yeast and mouse studies uncovered autophagy – October 3rd 2016
- 2016 Lasker Awards show importance of animal research – September 27th 2016
- Nobel Prizes 2015 – Protecting People against Parasites! – October 5th 2015
- Nobel Prize 2014: Fortune favours the prepared mind – October 6th 2014
- Yeast, cows and GM mice – 2013 Nobel Prize highlights contributions of model organisms in biomedical science – October 7th 2013
- Lasker Awards 2012: How animal research empowered the pioneers of liver transplantation – November 8th 2012
- Reprogrammed frog and mouse cells win the 2012 Nobel Prize – October 8th 2012
- Millennium Technology Prize 2012: Mouse stem cell research heralds a new era in biomedical research – June 14th 2012
- The 21st Century Scientist (Brain Prize) – March 16th 2012
- Nobel Prize 2011: Flies and mice take a bow! – October 3rd 2011
- Bob Edwards wins 2010 Nobel Prize for developing IVF: Thank the mice, rabbits, hamsters… – October 4th 2010
- Lasker awards highlight the contribution of animal research to medical progress – September 22nd 2010
- FASEB Excellence in Science Award for Stem Cell Pioneer – June 21st 2010
- Nobel Prize time again (and the Laskers too) – October 6th 2009
- Jellyfish, worms and research revolutions – October 15th 2008
- From the Nobel Prize to the clinic through animal research (HIV/HPV) – October 6th 2008
- Lasker awards highlight the importance of animal models (heart attack/stroke) – September
Last Updated. October 11th 2017.