News for the Multiple Sclerosis Community

Replacing animal models in MS research

Numerous discussions of the drawbacks of EAE animal model MS experiments, have been presented on MSNews. This morning (9/4/2007) I came across an interesting article that mentions a Dr Hadwen Trust-funded pilot study at Imperial College, London, investigating whether the application of a new molecular technique could replace animal experiments (EAE) in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research.