News by Subject Policy & Ethics

A new study by the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) suggests that utilising Confucianist, Daoist, and Buddhist belief messaging in targeted campaigns could effectively change the behaviour of end consumers in the East Asia illegal wildlife trade chain.

BU biologist and peers find investing in wildlife monitoring and deforestation could prevent costly pandemics.

The ARRIVE guidelines for the rigorous reporting of animal studies were published in 2010 by the UK-based science organisation, the NC3Rs. Now, ten years later, new reporting guidelines - ARRIVE 2.0 - have been published on July 14, 2020 in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Although the original guidelines were widely endorsed by journals and funders, they have not led to the comprehensive improvements in reporting intended, and ARRIVE 2.0 sets out to address this.

Dietary information from more than 400,000 U.S. adults was used to look at the association between consuming plant and animal protein and the risk of death over 16 years.

A newly developed vaccine appears to confer immunity to a diarrheal disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of people in developing countries around the world. Scientists working with monkeys found the new vaccine confers 83% immunity against Campylobacter-associated diarrhea among a population of rhesus macaques.