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Professor Hutchinson joins Proceedings B
Professor John Hutchinson was recently featured on The Royal Society's publishing blog, discussing his role as an Associate Editor for Proceedings B. Proceedings B is The Royal Society's flagship biological research journal and in this interview … -
Wellcome Image Awards
The story behind the 2015 overall award winner - a project bring new perspectives to a selection of anatomy specimens at the RVC -
Are you kidding me?
Researchers from the RVC, including Professor John Hutchinson, have recently supported artist-designer Thomas Thwaites in his attempt to recreate life as a goat. Thomas Thwaites testing the design of the forelimb prosthetic Thwaites has been … -
Muscle, Power and Locomotion
New research from the Structure and Motion Laboratory supports the use of single skinned muscle fibres in studies of animal locomotion. The research, recently published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, contriubutes to Professor Alan Wilson' … -
Exploding myths about seed dispersal
New insights into the biology and mechanics behind exploding seed pods show they don’t wait to dry out before they explode their seeds at record speeds -
Walk This Way
New research by Dr Tatjana Hubel and Dr Jim Usherwood provides fresh insight into the impact of size and speed for the way we humans walk and run. Dr Hubel, working alongside Structure and Motion Lab colleague Dr Usherwood, has been conducting … -
Bioactive targets of mitochondrial quality control and function
Dr Michelangelo Campanella and his Mitochondrial Cell Biology and Pharmacology Research Group have been awarded a BBSRC LIDo iCASE studentship with Nestle Institute of Health Sciences. Stress is a constant of our daily life and still we don’t …Dr Michelangelo Campanella and his Mitochondrial Cell Biology and Pharmacology Research Group …
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Companion dogs: a model for investigating age-related disease in people
A new Open Access paper published in Pathobiology of Aging and Age-related Diseases demonstrates the value of using companion dogs as a model for human morbidity and mortality. With the human population rapidly aging, the study of age-related … -
SML research featured on BBC4 documentary 'Can Science Make Me Perfect?'
Tune in to BBC4 this evening at 21:00 for the airing of ‘Can Science Make Me Perfect?’ with Alice Roberts for a redesign of the human body inspired by the best adaptations across the animal kingdom. BBC presenter Alice Roberts and her 'perfect' … -
RVC VetCompass™ Programme now also benefitting US dog welfare
The RVC VetCompass Programme shares anonymised veterinary clinical data covering millions of dogs in the UK. These data have been extensively researched leading to 48 peer-reviewed publications to date that are fundamentally changing how …