Extra funding channelled into disease treatment

Extra money for medical research unveiled in the budget will be used to improve treatments for Alzheimer's disease, strokes, diabetes and mental illness and new medicines for children, the health secretary said today.

Tim Lang: eating his words

The seasoned campaigner against GM and obesity tells John Crace why the government is finally taking food policy seriously.

I was not a lab rat

A new book has rekindled old rumours that renowned psychologist BF Skinner used his baby daughter in his experiments. Stop this rubbish about me and my dad, says Deborah Skinner Buzan.

Let’s look at those tests again

Vivienne Parry finds that even classic medical research can be based on a one size fits all attitude, as scientists challenge landmark heart study.

The hunt for another way

Animal testing is so controversial Cambridge was forced to scrap a brain disease lab. Can we develop medicines without vivisection? David Adam investigates