How do we benefit from animal research? Animal research helps us make life-changing discoveries, from new vaccines and new medicines to transplant procedures, anesthesia and

Animal experiments go through a process designed to make sure that an experiment is carried out only after all the alternatives have been considered. The

Animal experiments go through a process designed to make sure that an experiment is carried out only after all the alternatives have been considered. The

Animal research is carried out to improve the health and quality of life of all of us: the quality of life of people who use

• To control and supervise animal research, a council of 23 members was established at the Ministry of Health, made up of representatives of various

The Torah contains a number of commandments whose purpose is clearly to prevent animal suffering and to educate people to compassion, toward animals as well

The Council for Experiments on Animals In 1995, during the term of MK Ephraim Sneh as Minister of Health, the Council for Experiments on Animals

A scare campaign is now being waged against animal experiments. Many people, politicians among them, are falling for it without knowing the facts. The horror

In the debate over animal experiments, the issue is compassion, not rights. David Navon | Yedioth Ahronoth, 27.1.01 A proposed amendment to the Animal Welfare

Those who champion animals' right to live should not forget the rights of cattle and poultry By Shimon Glick | Haaretz, 4.5.2000 The case in

An article by Nachum Ulanovsky, as published in Haaretz An Israeli study in bats found that certain nerve cells, "social place cells", help an individual

By Erez Raz A combination of baseless and exaggerated claims, misunderstanding and hypocrisy drives the opposition to the use of animals in medical research and

Beni Leshem | Dr. Beni Leshem is an immunologist and director of the Medical Research Administration in the Office of the Chief Scientist at the

Animal research is essential for understanding the mechanisms at work in the whole living body, and no alternative can provide complete and reliable information in

When we are ill, whether it is a cold or a serious illness like a heart attack, most of us expect there to be a

The coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, is quickly becoming a global emergency that poses a danger to public health. More than 400 people

The Tulane National Primate Research Center has all the facilities needed to carry out research on pathogens such as the new coronavirus. Director Jay Rappaport

Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, says that the drug remdesivir is currently being tested in humans as a possible treatment for

According to a paper in the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, injections of the amino acid L-serine reduced the levels of protein deposits formed

Image: Pixabay According to a study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, a new expandable artificial heart valve, tested extensively in sheep, could spare

Image: Pixabay Glioblastoma is a disease linked to certain genetic syndromes. However, it also occurs in people with no family history of cancer, and even

תמונה: shutterstock Image: shutterstock Across Europe, many researchers are at the forefront of the race to find an effective treatment for the coronavirus. For basic

תמונה: shutterstock Image: shutterstock The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has revealed a marked absence of new calls from activist groups to ban animal experiments

Image: envato Scientists recently succeeded in an operation in which a leg belonging to a brown mouse was transplanted onto the body of a white

Remdesivir has already been used in a small number of patients infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and it is currently being

Image: shutterstock According to preliminary results of a study published on the online repository bioRxiv, three rhesus monkeys that recovered from the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)

Image: shutterstock Researchers are currently carrying out experiments to develop potential vaccines against COVID-19. To reduce the risk of serious side effects and increase the

Image: envato A Chinese pharmaceutical company and Shanghai East Hospital are jointly developing a vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, and

Image: shutterstock Despite conflicting reports that have circulated, a clinical trial in humans testing an mRNA vaccine to prevent infection with the new coronavirus has

Image: shutterstock Tiny engineered particles that release signaling proteins, which in turn attract regulatory T cells, help protect transplanted limbs and prevent their rejection by

Image: envato News of a "weak positive" result for the presence of the virus in a test carried out on a dog in Hong Kong

Image: envato Ferrets that received two doses of a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus produced neutralizing antibodies. According to researchers at the Vaccine and Infectious

Image: envato A study carried out at Oregon Health & Science University and published in the journal Science found that rhesus macaques infected with the

Image: envato The development of remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19 was made possible by joint efforts between the pharmaceutical company Gilead and various US

Image: envato A paper published in the journal Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience found that the anticonvulsant drugs lamotrigine and gabapentin succeeded in preventing brain damage

Image: envato Humans are susceptible to only a few species of viruses out of the wide variety of viruses that can infect animals. Current estimates

Image: envato Although the Brigham Young University (BYU) campus is closed, veterinarian Sandy Garrett, together with a number of student researchers and technicians who specialize

Image: envato Veterinarian Skip Bohm, associate director and chief veterinary medical officer at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, notes that a number of coronavirus

Image: envato The University of Georgia campus is closed. All non-essential projects have been suspended, and researchers have been allowed to breed lab animals only

Image: envato The US Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) has produced a video series called "The Role of Animals in Biomedical Research" and released it

Image: envato The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to stop carrying out certain types of animal studies. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler recently directed the

Image: envato Experiments carried out in mice helped researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin and the University of Bristol in

Image: shutterstock A drug for treating an enlarged prostate has been identified as a potential treatment for the progressive neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson's disease (PD). Researchers

Image: envato The European Commission recently published an unequivocal statement on the ongoing need to use animals as models in biomedical research. The statement of

Image: envato Introduction The European Commission is fully committed to the welfare of animals and to achieving our final goal: the full replacement of animals

Image: envato The human body uses antibodies to fight disease. These antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system, and they are found naturally in

Image: envato "A single dose of a new RNA-based vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus, succeeded in triggering an antibody and T-cell response in monkeys,

Image: shutterstock Researcher Noe Mercado spent most of his time this March studying nasal samples from monkeys that had been injected with experimental vaccines and

Image: envato An experimental vaccine developed at the University of Oxford combines genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus with parts of an adenovirus that is

Image: shutterstock A paper published in Cell Host & Microbe describes a hybrid virus developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, which

תמונה: shutterstock Image: shutterstock A review published in the journal Cell Metabolism describes ways in which bats manage to regulate their immune system during viral

Image: envato The drug metformin inhibits a protein called "kinase R", reduces the amount of RAN proteins (repeat associated non-AUG proteins), and led to an

תמונה: shutterstock The signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in dogs have been found to be similar to those seen in humans. These signs include

eldiariodesalud.com Frederick Banting and Charles Best with one of the research dogs.   Diabetes Diabetes is a disease characterized by high levels of glucose (a

  Hagai Bergman, September 2021 Based on “Deep Brain Stimulation Offers Parkinson’s Patients New Hope,” by Leah Jessen, Digital Communications Manager, and Matthew R. Bailey,

FBR is proud to announce the second video in our mini-series on the role of animals in biomedical research: "The Importance of Rodent Research." This one-minute long shareable video highlights the ways