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Research from the RVC provides recommendations to improve UK canine health and welfare research
New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified a set of key recommendations to further improve canine health and welfare research in the UK. This includes the need for more efficient grant applications, stronger collaboration …New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified a set of key recommendations to …
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Project update: over 500 dogs enrolled to VetCompass study on degenerative mitral valve disease
Thanks to collaborating veterinary practices, over 500 dogs have now been enrolled to the VetCompass DMVD study! Many thanks to all the veterinary staff, owners and dogs who have taken part so far. We are still keen to recruit more practices, so … -
New Leverhulme Grant awarded to Dr Michael Doube
Congratulations to Dr Michael Doube who has been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for his proposal, "Act big, get big. Bone cell activity scaling among species as a skeletal adaptation mechanism" Bones, and the foam-like structures within …Congratulations to Dr Michael Doube who has been awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for his …
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Latest publications from the VEEPH group
Read on to find out more about some of the work we have published over the last couple of months...Read on to find out more about some of the work we have published over the last couple of months... …
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Use of zebrafish to increase our understanding of diseases
One major use of zebrafish is to increase our understanding of diseases and provide disease models for therapeutic discovery. We focus on rare inherited diseases, which together affect about one in every 10 people, even though each disease has an … -
The simple truth behind sheepdog behaviour
Sheepdogs use two simple "driving" and "collecting" rules to herd sheep. This knowledge could be used to design herding robots used for herding livestock, cleaning up the environment, and crowd control. -
New EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship relating to Limb Networks awarded
Professor John Hutchinson and colleagues have been awarded a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie International Fellowship for Dr. Borja Esteve-Altava. The project is entitled Limb Networks - Network Analysis of Musculoskeletal Evolution and Modularity during …Professor John Hutchinson and colleagues have been awarded a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie …
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Testing the locomotor superiority hypothesis for early dinosaurs
Professor John Hutchinson has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator grant called "Testing the locomotor superiority hypothesis for early dinosaurs". This project seeks to unify evolutionary and biomechanical research by achieving a “functional …Professor John Hutchinson has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator grant called "Testing the …
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Open source bone biology software benefits industry and academia
Open source image analysis software BoneJ developed at RVC being used in volcanology, marine biology, soils science, battery design, and food science -
RVC join forces with BBC for Cat Watch 2014
The RVC Structure and Motion Lab team have joined up with the BBC and presenter Liz Bonnin for Cat Watch 2014 on BBC2 Horizon, October 7th, 8th and 9th. See our scientists revealing how town cats, village cats and farm cats spend their days and …