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• Weight gain more than doubles the risk of laminitis in horses and ponies

  

  Horses and ponies that gain weight are more than twice as likely to develop laminitis than if they lose or maintain their weight, new research has found.

   27 Mar 2019

• New RVC research explains human foot and leg proportions

  

  Novel research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) examining the human walk has been able to predict leg and foot proportions using collisional geometry. The findings suggest why modern humans have a knee halfway down their legs, short heel and …

   22 Mar 2023

• RVC and LSHTM publish joint study evaluating the Government’s Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategy

  

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) together with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (LSHTM PIRU) has published an evaluation study on the Government’s Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) …

   30 Apr 2020

  The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) together with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s …

• RVC receives translational research funding to help safeguard human and animal health

  

  Researchers at the RVC will receive three new grants, totalling nearly £1 million, to fund studies that combat infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance

   08 Jul 2019

  Researchers at the RVC will receive three new grants for Knowledge Exchange from Research England’s …

• New breakthrough in creation of feline stem cells could help develop treatments for heart disease in cats and humans

  

  In what is believed to be a world-first, researchers have identified the conditions required to generate pluripotent stem cells from domestic cats, a finding which could have significant benefits for feline and human health

   24 Sep 2019

  In what is believed to be a world-first, researchers have identified the conditions required to …

• Three Innovation Fellows appointed to lead research on infectious diseases

  

  Three Innovation Fellows have been appointed, including two at the RVC, to undertake studies aimed at producing new diagnostic tools for infectious diseases.

   20 Mar 2019

• London’s ‘Knowledge Quarter’ is one of the world’s best locations for science and innovation

  

  The one-mile radius around King’s Cross railway station in north London has been revealed to contain one of the highest densities of knowledge-based businesses and science organisations in the world.

   08 Mar 2019

  The one-mile radius around King’s Cross railway station in north London has been revealed to …

• New research reveals frogs’ impressive ability to jump at an extreme range of take-off angles

  

  Research led by the RVC shows how frogs are able to achieve a wide range of jump angles, from nearly horizontal to almost vertical

   18 May 2017

• RVC research shows cavalier King Charles spaniels walk like toddlers

  

  Cavalier King Charles spaniels affected by syringomyelia and Chiari-like malformation have an irregular, “drunk-like” gait

   15 Jun 2017

  Researchers have found that cavalier King Charles spaniels affected by syringomyelia and Chiari- …

• Ground-breaking fossilised tissue reveals the gradual evolution of crouched legs in birds

  

  Researchers at RVC and Nanjing University have shown that living birds have a more crouched leg posture compared to their dinosaurian ancestors.

   22 Mar 2017