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Compassion fatigue: the emotional cost of working with animals in research

The PRBB will launch an internal assessment to better understand how this phenomenon may affect people who work directly or indirectly with animals used in research.

Platform Dalí opens the call for applications for its 2027 residencies

Under the theme ‘What is real?’, the call for applications will remain open until 7 September. Artists from any discipline and of any nationality are eligible to apply to undertake a residency at a research centre and develop a piece based on their stay.

Composite microscopy image showing Capsaspora owczarzaki, sea urchin blood cells, tunicate test cells and mouse bone marrow cells, used to illustrate the evolutionary study of blood-cell lineages.

An ancient immune programme older than animals themselves

A study led by Kyoto University and the IBE suggests that the first blood cells emerged around 700 million years ago, before animals existed as we know them.