Animal Research by Species

This page serves as an index of all our scientific posts describing research which has used animal models. We have categorised them by species. Use the links below to jump to the section you want. Also check out our Research Indexed by Disease.

• Amphibians and Reptiles
• Birds
• Cats
• Cattle
• Chimpanzees
• Dogs
• Ferrets
• Fish
• Fruit Flies
• Gerbils
• Goats
• GuineaPigs
• Horses
• Jellyfish
• Mice
• Monkeys
• Nematode Worms
• Pigs
• Rabbits
• Rats
• Sheep
• Other Invertebrates

Amphibians and Reptiles

• Asthma and Animal Research: A Public Health Perspective (frogs) – June 26th 2017
• Animal research helps to halve deaths from coronary heart disease (snakes) – June 26^th 2013
• A new drug to treat type II diabetes: Thank the …Gila monster? – May 2^nd 2013
• Reprogrammed frog and mouse cells win the 2012 Nobel Prize – October 8^th 2012
• From Science Fiction to Science Fact (axolotl)– July 6^th 2009

Birds

• How do birds see the world? – August 27^th 2015
• Behaviourists defend basic science – August 5^th 2014

Cats

• Amblyopia, kittens and BUAV deception – July 27^th 2012

Cattle

• HPV vaccines and cervical cancer – a success in animals is a success for humans – February 23^rd 2016
• Cotton Rats, Calves and Clinical Trials: New RSV vaccine shows great promise – August 13^th 2015
• Yeast, cows and GM mice – 2013 Nobel Prize highlights contributions of model organisms in biomedical science – October 7^th 2013
• “The biggest achievement of veterinary history” (Rinderpest) – October 15^th 2010
• From the Nobel Prize to the clinic through animal research (HIV/HPV) – October 6^th 2008

Chimpanzees

• 2016 Lasker Awards show importance of animal research (Hep C) – September 27th 2016
• What is science? – August 12th 2016
• Sanctuary, Zoo, Lab: Name games or core differences? – August 10th 2016
• Zoo-sanctuary partnership: Lincoln Park Zoo and federally-funded retired chimpanzee sanctuary announce new research program – August 3rd 2016
• Can we agree? An ongoing dialogue about where retired research chimpanzees should live – August 1st 2016
• Do politics trump chimpanzee well-being? Questions raised about deaths of US research chimpanzees at federally-funded sanctuary – July 14th 2016
• Thank You Doctor Salk! (and Drs Enders, Bodian, Landsteiner, Sabin…) – October 28^th 2014
• Afterthoughts on IoM report on the use of chimps in scientific research – December 17^th 2011
• What cost savings? A closer look at the Great Ape Protection and Cost Saving Act 2011 – December 8^th 2011
• A closer look at the Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA) – November 21^st 2011
• Efforts to ban chimpanzee research are misguided – October 13^th 2011
• Project Nim – The Untold Story – August 15^th 2011
• Facts must inform discussion of future chimpanzee research – August 12^th 2011
• Scientists discover AIDS in Chimpanzees – July 25^th 2009

Dogs

• Research with dogs develops an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes – July 3rd 2017
• Thomas Starzl (1926-2017) – The man who saved countless humans using animal research – March 7th 2017
• University of Stirling improving animal welfare for dogs – September 30th 2016
• Obama’s cancer initiative and animal research – February 5^th 2016
• FASEB hosts briefing on canine research – December 4^th 2015
• Peritoneal Carcinosis and HIPEC: A second chance for patients, thanks to animal research – October 20^th 2014
• Paralyzed man walks again after olfactory cell transplant, thanks to animal research – October 21^st 2014
• Successful gene therapy for haemophilia A in dogs – Humans next! – November 22^nd 2013
• Animal research and diabetes: Now the truth must be told – Part 2 – November 13^th 2013
• Animal research and diabetes: Now the truth must be told – Part 1 – November 12^th 2013
• Animal research saved both my dogs (chronic lymphocytic leukemia / CDS) – August 26^th 2013
• Animal research helps to halve deaths from coronary heart disease – June 26^th 2013
• Paralysed dogs walk again thanks to nasal stem cell transplants … and Professor Raisman’s rats – November 19^th 2012
• Lasker Awards 2012: How animal research empowered the pioneers of liver transplantation – November 8^th 2012
• Dogs in medical research (Heart failure) – May 2^nd 2012
• From science to miracle in 2 years: The discovery of insulin – August 3^rd 2011
• Using Animals for Animals – Emma’s Story (bilateral cranial ligament tears) – March 16^th 2011
• Advancing gene therapy, debunking AR propaganda (Leber’s congential amaurosis) – February 18^th 2011
• Magic Bullets and Monoclonals: A Breakthrough in Bioscience (Cancer/Autoimmune) – March 22^nd 2010
• Protecting a broken heart: the discovery of remote ischemic preconditioning – March 5^th 2010
• The similarity of Human and Animal Models (Autism/OCD) – February 5^th 2009
• Cool heads required! (perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy) – October 9^th 2009
• Bling Dogs Lead Researchers to Treatments (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – September 8^th 2009
• From Science Fiction to Science Fact – July 6^th 2009
• Progress towards a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – March 23^rd 2009
• Lasker awards highlight the importance of animal models (heart attack/stroke) – September 17^th 2008
• Gene Therapy for blindness (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – April 20^th 2008

Ferrets

• Fighting the Flu – May 1^st 2009

Fish

• How zebrafish help advance cancer research – March 2^nd 2016
• Why are zebrafish such good models for scientists – November 26^th 2015
• Behind the scenes of zebrafish research – August 25^th 2015
• Zebrafish: the rising star of animal models – May 11^th 2015
• Fish for Science – April 7^th 2011
• A fish named Hope – February 16^th 2011

Fruit Flies

• 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded for Fruit Fly Research – October 2nd 2017
• The portrait of a Superstar of Science – Drosphilia melanogaster – November 23^rd 2012
• So what can a growing fly teach us about skin cancer – June 13^th 2012
• Nobel Prize 2011: Flies and mice take a bow! – October 3^rd 2011
• From organ development to tissue engineering – December 8^th 2008

Gerbils

• Human embryonic stem cells restore hearing in deaf gerbils – September 14^th 2012

Goats

• “The biggest achievement of veterinary history” (Rinderpest) – October 15^th 2010

GuineaPigs

• Animal research helps to halve deaths from coronary heart disease – June 26^th 2013

Horses

• Liviya’s Story (Aplastic Anemia) – April 2^nd 2013

Jellyfish

• Jellyfish, worms and research revolutions – October 15^th 2008

Mice

• Of mice and mammaries, part 1: There’s something in the milk – October 9th 2017
• Mice and the Mycobiome: How animal models will help us understand the microbial world in our gut – September 25th 2017
• Of mice and mint: Animal research uncovers a previously unknown role for menthol in tobacco addiction – May 30th 2017
• Cameron Bryant: Triangulating the genes leading to bing eating – May 11th 2017
• Tail or Tunnel: Handling Methods Influence Mouse Behavior in Cognitive Tasks – March 21st 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
• Zika research in nonhuman primates critical as fears among pregnant women, families grow – July 12th 2016
• Exciting cells and controlling heartbeats – could optogenetics create drug-free treatments? (Alzheimer’s) – April 7th 2016
• Obama’s cancer initiative and animal research – February 5^th 2016
• Nobel Prizes 2015 – Protecting People against Parasites! – October 5^th 2015
• CRPS Animal Models Explained – June 18^th 2015
• Lung cancer immunotherapy, from PD-1 knockout to clinical trials – May 30^th 2015
• Thank You Doctor Salk! (and Drs Enders, Bodian, Landsteiner, Sabin…) – October 28^th 2014
• Better Mice, Better Research, Better Results – April 14^th 2014
• How to help girls with Rett syndrome, and strike a blow against extremism! – March 25^th 2014
• From clinic to mouse to clinic: New HIV gene therapy shows promise – March 6^th 2014
• Visionary Science: Gene therapy saves sight thanks to animal research (choroideremia) – January 17^th 2014
• Cancer Immunotherapy: A breakthrough made through animal research – December 20^th 2013
• Animal research brings hope to the girl whose skin never heals (epidermolysis bullosa)– December 4^th 2013
• Mice and Mustard Gas: A History of Chemotherapy – November 20^th 2013
• Yeast, cows and GM mice – 2013 Nobel Prize highlights contributions of model organisms in biomedical science – October 7^th 2013
• SYR: Animal Research and MS – September 24^th 2013
• Italian Gene Therapy Success – Thanks to animal research (metachromatic leukodystrophy / Wiskott Aldrich)
• To engineer a new heart, first you take a pig… – July 4^th 2013
• Treating Progeria; How GM mice give hope to some very special children – April 11^th 2013
• Why mice may succeed in research when a single mouse falls short – February 15^th 2013
• Defeating Leukemia: A smile that says “Thank the mice” – December 12^th 2012
• Universal Meningitis B vaccine nears approval by European regulators – thank the mice (and the scientists)! – November 22^nd 2012
• Lasker Awards 2012: How animal research empowered the pioneers of liver transplantation – November 8^th 2012
• Reprogrammed frog and mouse cells win the 2012 Nobel Prize – October 8^th 2012
• Cancer stem cells: Mouse studies lead to paradigm shift in cancer research – August 2^nd 2012
• Fighting the White Death: A new treatment for drug resistant TB – August 1^st 2012
• Natural antibiotic casts a net against bacteria (inflammatory bowel syndrome) – July 31^st 2012
• Millennium Technology Prize 2012: Mouse stem cell research heralds a new era in biomedical research – June 14^th 2012
• What GM mice can tell us about pancreatic cancer (and medical charities) – May 1^st 2012
• Restoring vision in night blindness: Mice point way to stem cell therapy – April 27^th 2012
• Mouse study points to effective treatment of Fragile X syndrome – April 18^th 2012
• Good, bad, useful? Reflections on animals models for Parkinson’s disease research – April 2^nd 2012
• Hypothermia in stroke: EuroHYP moves from rats to man – March 19^th 2012
• The 21^st Century Scientist (Usher Syndrome) – March 16^th 2012
• Can stem cells repair broken hearts? Thanks to animal research we may soon find out! – February 16^th 2012
• How nerve cells reach their niche – February 2^nd 2012
• Merry Christmas for Patients for Hemophilia B – December 22^nd 2011
• Empathy and Altruism in rats – December 14^th 2011
• Animal Models of Dystonia – Part I – November 9^th 2011
• Nobel Prize 2011: Flies and mice take a bow! – October 3^rd 2011
• Mice and macaques pave the way for effective HIV vaccines – September 29^th 2011
• Mice show the way to improved stem cell therapy for heart attacks – September 21^st 2011
• A breakthrough against Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia … thank the mice! – September 13^th 2011
• Promising clinical trial result for exon skipping in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – August 1^st 2011
• The value of animals in pre-clinical trials – July 27^th 2011
• Lighting the way to new treatments (Type II diabetes) – June 29^th 2011
• Have no fear, mice are here (PTSD) – June 15^th 2011
• Mice help scientists to understand cancer genome – March 25^th 2011
• Taming the Wold: a new treatment for Lupus – March 24^th 2011
• Advancing gene therapy, debunking AR propaganda (Leber’s congential amaurosis) – February 18^th 2011
• Mice help identify promising prostate cancer treatment – October 12^th 2010

• Mice, nanotechnology and inflammatory bowel disease – October 11^th 2010
• Bob Edwards wins 2010 Nobel Prize for developing IVF: Thank the mice, rabbits, hamsters… – October 4^th 2010
• Lasker awards highlight the contribution of animal research to medical progress – September 22^nd 2010
• Mice help develop molecular imaging of tumors – September 20^th 2010
• Animal research: At the forefront of modern medicine (Beta thalassemia) – September 17^th 2010
• Herceptin: When personalized medicine and animal research meet – September 2^nd 2010
• Mice, rats, and the secrets of the genome – August 17^th 2010
• Of mice and mTOR: Can damaged spinal cords be taught to repair themselves? – August 10^th 2010
• Shots without jabs: The future vaccination – July 19^th 2010
• FASEB Excellence in Science Award for Stem Cell Pioneer – June 21^st 2010
• Septic shock: Mice show way to a new treatment – June 7^th 2010
• Finding Animal Research in Medical News (ALS/DMD/MS) – May 7^th 2010
• Magic Bullets and Monoclonals: A Breakthrough in Bioscience (Cancer/Autoimmune) – March 22^nd 2010
• Mice pave the way to a cord blood transplant advance (Leukemia) – February 15^th 2010
• Pompe disease – a starring role for animal research – January 25^th 2010
• Addiction Research as an Example of Translational Biomedical Research – January 22^nd 2010
• Mice uncover the secrets of Congenital Heart Defect – December 14 2009
• Gene therapy on the brain (cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy)– November 16^th 2009
• Nobel Prize time again (and the Laskers too) – October 6^th 2009
• From Mouse of Monkey to Human: The Story of Rituximab (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) – July 13^th 2009
• Can we protect the brain against tumor metastasis? (Cancer) – June 15^th 2009
• Synergy (Down’s Syndrome)– May 27^th 2009
• A passive defence against the flu? – February 25^th 2009
• Shedding some light on the dark side of stem cells (Cancer stem cells) – February 10^th 2009
• Fighting the scourges of humanity (Malaria/Alzheimer’s/AIDS) – December 17^th 2008
• A pig model of cystic fibrosis – September 29^th 2008
• Changing cellular career paths (Type I diabetes) – September 1^st 2008
• Mice aid development of new weapon against HIV – August 11^th 2008
• Attacking Alzheimer’s disease from every angle – July 21^st 2008
• Stem cell hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy – July 17^th 2008
• How mice helped develop a new drug for MS – June 23^rd 2008
• Calming the storm … while killing the virus (SARS/H5N1) – June 6^th 2008
• A vaccine against meningitis B – May 18^th 2008
• Gene Therapy for blindness (Leber’s congenital amaurosis) – April 20^th 2008
• Calming the Storm: Learning from Research (SARS/H5N1)– April 19^th 2008
• Avoiding the Side Effects of Radiotherapy – April 11^th 2008

Monkeys

• Q & A With a Primatologist: Why Studying Rank Changes is Good for Primate Welfare – May 1st 2017
• Winners of 2017 Brain Prize announced – Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan and Wolfram Schultz (mechanisms of reward) – March 6th 2017
• Special Issue of Primate Journal Focuses Solely on Non-Human Primate Well-Being – January 12th 2017
• Nonhuman primate research gives us otherwise impossible treatments – October 31st 2016
• Device to help stroke patients to recover moves from primates to people – October 20th 2016
• Of White Papers and Commentators: The Use of Nonhuman Primates in Research – September 7th 2016
• Zika research in nonhuman primates critical as fears among pregnant women, families grow – July 12th 2016
• Macaque study explores best route of oxytocin administration – February 12^th 2016
• One step closer to a vaccine for cytomegalovirus: Monkeys transmit CMV the same wat as humans – October 27^th 2015
• Truvada prevents HIV infection in high-risk individuals! A clinical success built on animal research – September 11^th 2015
• Primate research and twenty years of stem cell firsts – January 7^th 2015
• Thank You Doctor Salk! (and Drs Enders, Bodian, Landsteiner, Sabin…) – October 28^th 2014
• Child health benefits from studies of infant monkeys – Part 1 (Autism/Cerebral Palsy/Leukaemia/Diabetes/HIV/Huntington’s/Transplant)– October 9^th 2014
• Nobel Prize 2014: Fortune favours the prepared mind (Deep brain Stimulation)– October 6^th 2014
• Why is alcohol research with nonhuman animals essential? – July 14^th 2014
• Kicking off a new era for neuroprosthetics, or just the warm-up? – June 12^th 2014
• Ebola virus vaccine developed to protect wild gorillas and chimpanzees – May 26^th 2014
• Spinal cord stimulation restores monkey’s ability to move paralysed hand – May 19^th 2014
• Understanding addiction: NIDA article highlights contribution of animal research – March 21^st 2014
• Cancer Immunotherapy: A breakthrough made through animal research – December 20^th 2013
• First human stem cells created through cloning …thank Mitalipov’s macaques! – May 15^th 2013
• From Macaques to Humans: UK regulator gives cautious thumbs up to advanced IVF techniques to prevent mitochondrial disease – March 21^st 2013
• Brain Awareness Week: The Role of Animals in Neuroscience (Stem Cell Treatment) – March 14^th 2013
• Brain-machine interface success allows paralysed woman to feed herself for the first time in a decade – December 17^th 2012
• Hope for young cancer victims as stem cell transplantation restores functioning sperm in monkeys – November 2^nd 2012
• New gene therapy for mitochondrial diseases a step closer thanks to ONPRC – October 25^th 2012
• Parkinson’s patient meet the marmosets – September 4^th 2012
• Bridging the gap: Monkey studies shed light on nature, nurture, and how experiences get under the skin – June 4^th 2012
• Not difficult to grasp (paralysis) – May 16^th 2012
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Lessons from Monkeys – May 7^th 2012
• OHSU Rhesus macaque embryo research to improve preimplantatioin genetic diagnosis – May 4^th 2012
• The new face of transplant surgery thanks to animal research – March 28^th 2012
• A Brief History of Deep Brain Stimulation (Parkinson’s) – March 15^th 2012
• Remembering a hero of the struggle against HIV/AIDS – December 1^st 2011
• Animal Models of Dystonia – Part II (Parkinson’s)– November 13^th 2011
• A paralyzed man touches his girlfriend’s hand … thanks to animal research! – October 13^th 2011
• Mice and macaques pave the way for effective HIV vaccines – September 29^th 2011
• Interview with a primate researcher – September 12^th 2011
• Explaining Addiction Research – July 25^th 2011
• Obesity, Smoking and Addiction – April 18^th 2011
• Overcoming paralysis: From Monkey to Man at the University of Pittsburgh – February 21^st 2011
• Albert Sabin and the monkeys who gave summer back to the children (polio) – February 1^st 2011
• No scares for ONPRC monkeys at Halloween – November 23^rd 2010
• Microbicide gel cuts HIV infection rates… thank the monkeys – July 21^st 2010
• A shield against the nightmare: Ebola virus vaccine success – May 21^st 2010
• RNAi: Send in the Nanobots (Melanoma) – March 25^th 2010
• Defeating diseases of the developing world: tuberculosis and Chikungunya fever – January 29^th 2010
• From Mouse of Monkey to Human: The Story of Rituximab (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) – July 13^th 2009
• The Monkey of the Baskervilles (GFP gene)– May 20^th 2009
• How Monkeys Help to Prevent HIV Infection – March 27^th 2009
• Returning control to paralyzed limbs one nerve at a time – October 26^th 2008
• Monkeys, Robots and the University of Pittsburgh – New hope for paralysis victims? – May 20^th 2008
• A monkey model of Huntington’s disease – May 28^th 2008
• Avoiding the Side Effects of Radiotherapy – April 11^th 2008

Nematode Worms

• Jellyfish, worms and research revolutions – October 15^th 2008

Pigs

• Found in Translation: Using a Personal Tragedy to Drive Innovative Research – August 30th 2017
• 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 27^th 2015
• Trial of gene therapy in heart failure launches following success in rats and pigs – September 6^th 2013
• To engineer a new heart, first you take a pig… – July 4^th 2013
• Liver transplant breakthrough set to save thousands of lives: Thank the pigs! – March 20^th 2013
• Shots without jabs: The future vaccination – July 19^th 2010
• How to build a lung – June 25^th 2010
• A pig model of cystic fibrosis – September 29^th 2008

Rabbits

• HPV vaccines and cervical cancer – a success in animals is a success for humans – February 23^rd 2016
• Hopping rabbits herald breakthrough in tissue engineering – July 20^th 2010
• Animal Research Benefits Mom and Baby Alike (IVF/Contraceptives/Neonatal care) – June 11^th 2010
• Pompe disease – a starring role for animal research – January 25^th 2010
• Animal research behind the headlines (Blood clots) – May 1^st 2008
• Fighting the scourges of humanity (Malaria/Alzheimer’s/AIDS) – December 17^th 2008

Rats

• Scott Kelly and Beyond: How rodents are being utilized by NASA and the ISS – March 7^th 2016
• The importance of animals in neuroscience research – December 10^th 2015
• Sex, drugs and the validity of the animal model – October 23^rd 2015
• Cotton Rats, Calves and Clinical Trials: New RSV vaccine shows great promise – August 13^th 2015
• Paralyzed man walks again after olfactory cell transplant, thanks to animal research – October 21^st 2014
• Stem cell therapy allows blind to see again, thanks to animal research – October 15^th 2014
• Nobel Prize 2014: Fortune favours the prepared mind – October 6^th 2014
• Paralysis breakthrough – electrical stimulation enables four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs – May 8^th 2014
• Characterising high fructose corn syrup self-administration in laboratory rats – January 30^th 2014
• SYR: Animal Research and MS – September 24^th 2013
• Trial of gene therapy in heart failure launches following success in rats and pigs – September 6^th 2013
• Animal research leads to promising results for first clinical trial of stem cell therapy for stroke – May 28^th 2013
• Moving from rats to patients: swift progress for electrical stimulation in treating paralysis – December 5^th 2012
• Paralysed dogs walk again thanks to nasal stem cell transplants … and Professor Raisman’s rats – November 19^th 2012
• Interfacing with the nervous system: Studies in rats and mice show the way – August 14^th 2012
• Understanding Cyborg Jellyfish – August 7^th 2012
• Swiss scientists restore voluntary locomotion in paralysed rats – June 1^st 2012
• Empathy and Altruism in rats – December 14^th 2011
• Animal research unleashes the power of human embryonic stem cells – November 7^th 2011
• A paralyzed man stands again… thanks to animal research! – May 20^th 2011
• Transplanted astrocytes repair spinal cord damage in rat – March 4^th 2011
• How to build a beating heart – February 7^th 2011
• Breakthroughs of the year 2010: Looking back and looking ahead – January 10^th 2011
• From the bench to the bedside; how animal research is taming Multiple Sclerosis – December 15^th 2010
• Mice, rats, and the secrets of the genome – August 17^th 2010
• Finding Animal Research in Medical News (ALS/DMD/MS) – May 7^th 2010
• A Noble cause: Protecting babies brains with Xenon (oxygen starvation) – April 16^th 2010
• Understanding migraines: The blind leading the …err… rats – January 18^th 2010
• Working toward a cure for paralysis – October 5^th 2009
• Mending a Broken Heart (heart damage) – August 31^st 2009
• A new era for embryonic stem cells (spinal cord injury) – January 23^rd 2009
• Animal research behind the headlines (blood clots) – May 1^st 2008

Sheep

• SYR: How sheep can help us understand why girls are reaching puberty at younger ages (puberty) – November 14 2016
• SYR: The case for using large animal models to study reproduction – November 9th 2016
• Research with sheep demonstrates utility of new synthetic blood vessels – October 6th 2016
• Research using sheep leads to a new device to record and stimulate the brain – August 22nd 2016
• Clinical trial success for Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy: built on animal research – July 3^rd 2015
• Spider silk used to repair nerve damage in sheep – March 7^th 2011
• Caring for sick babies: Science versus animal rights – February 11^th 2011

Other Invertebrates

• Behaviourists defend basic science – August 5^th 2014
• Learning from Locusts – September 26^th 2013

Last updated October 11th 2017.