This Wednesday, April 24, is the World Day for Animals in Laboratories, held annually to consider the use of animals in scientific and medical research. It is typically marked by small-scale protests, big money campaigns and, no doubt, articles such as Peter Tatchell's in the

The recent, fantastic, news that it will be illegal to sell cosmetics tested on animals across Europe has been a long time coming, and offers hope that the ban may one day spread outside of Europe. The use of animals for veterinary and medical applications, however, remains essential.

When the UK's Sir John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize along with Shinya Yamanaka, it acted as a reminder that the practical use of scientific discoveries can take decades to reveal themselves.

Gurdon's work used frogs to prove that a single cell in your body contains all the...

Recently, the BUAV's Michelle Thew, who campaigns against animal research, asked "wouldn't it be nice if the debate about animal experiments could be based on what is really involved?"

Helpfully, the Home Office has just released its annual statistics demonstrating how many animals of what type...

An interesting row has arisen around the transposition of an EU Directive into UK law. It has been sparked by a claim that stray or feral animals will be used in animal research, and tells us a great deal about how anti-animal research lobbyists sometimes mislead their supporters...

Michelle Thew recently wrote a piece for The Huffington Post on the use of stray or feral animals in medical research labs. Unfortunately, the article was missing vital information that may change the way that readers understand the issue.

Ms Thew was referring to a Home Office consultation...