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• Helping racehorses put their best foot forward

  

  An international research team is working to understand how horseshoes affect foot skeleton stress in racehorses, in a project that is likely to benefit the racing industry and protect horses from injury. The research team, from the RVC, UQ in …

   20 Jul 2016

• VetCompass Christmas Newsletter 2019

  

  The VetCompass Christmas Newsletter is live! Click the link below to read a summary of VetCompass 2019 progress. VetCompass Christmas Newsletter 2019 To date, VetCompass shares data with 1800 UK vet practices (over 30% of all UK practices) and …

   09 Dec 2019

• RVC lecturer awarded Physiological Society research grant to study tissue repair and regeneration

  

  Dr Caroline Pellet-Many has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the Physiological Society, available to scientists in their first academic position: https://www.physoc.org/news_article/2020-research-grant-awardees-announced/. Caroline, …

   11 Aug 2020

  Dr Caroline Pellet-Many has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the Physiological …

• Elucidating the Mechanisms Underpinning Canine Achilles Tendon Degeneration and Calcification

  

  Dr Chavaunne Thorpe, Dr Isabel Orriss and Dr Richard Meeson have been awarded a grant from the Petplan Charitable Trust to investigate the mechanisms leading to degeneration and calcification in the dog Achilles tendon.   Tendon calcification is …

   12 Oct 2021

  Dr Chavaunne Thorpe, Dr Isabel Orriss and Dr Richard Meeson have been awarded a grant from the …

• How curved are your bones? RVC study finds smart bones curve to protect against fracture

  

  How curved are your bones? RVC study finds smart bones curve to protect against fracture

   06 Mar 2020

  Bone adaptation to physiological forces at the organ level is not related to local mechanical …

• Can mosquitoes stop us going bump in the night?

  

  International, collaborative research group led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has demonstrated how the mosquito avoids obstacles in the dark by sensing changes in the airflows generated by its flapping wings.

   07 May 2020

• New award-winning RVC research reveals the importance of a One Health approach if elimination of a major parasitic disease is to be achieved

  

  This study highlights how viable zoonotic hybridisation between parasites of humans with those of animals, together with wider ecosystem contexts, can affect the transmission and resilience of the disease.

   17 Aug 2020

  A new study published in Lancet Planetary Health led by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), working …

• Biomechanical models unlock muscle-bound secrets of the evolution of dinosaur locomotion

  

  Scientists have discovered how the locomotion of dinosaurs on land changed from the earliest, cat-sized bipedal (walking on two hind legs) forms to giants like Tyrannosaurus rex and then ultimately birds. The findings identify that movement in …

   19 Mar 2021

• RVC study reveals extent of dog obesity crisis in the UK

  

  Study from the RVC reveals scale of the overweight epidemic in dogs in the UK, with 1 in 14 dogs recorded by their vets as overweight each year

   23 Mar 2021

• New research from the RVC explores the genetic adaptions and evolution of livestock and wild animals in response to extreme climates

  

  Genetics of extreme climate adaptation which help the world’s most northern Yakut cattle population in Siberia survive their extreme cold environment

   30 Mar 2021

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in …