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  • RVC paper featured on cover of Laboratory News

    A recent article published by Dr Denis Larkin has been featured on the cover page of Laboratory News.   The article details how an international group of scientists and researchers interested in genomics have been meeting via skype on a weekly …
     14 Feb 2018

    A recent article published by Dr Denis Larkin has been featured on the cover page of Laboratory …

  • The simple truth behind sheepdog behaviour

    Sheep wearing tracking collar
    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.
     04 Sep 2014

  • Bones of Contention

    Thigh bones in cross-section; illustrating the diverse degrees of solidification in different species; scale bars are 5mm; showing hollow bones in big species (A Giraffe, B Cape Buffalo), more solid bones in various rhinoceros species (C, D) and differently solidified bones in elephants and their kin (E, F), hippos (G) and the dinosaur Stegosaurus (H)
    Why have both giant land animals and many aquatic animals of varying sizes evolved to have more solidified bones? This is something Professor John Hutchinson has been questioning for over ten years. To understand why this common evolutionary …
     14 Oct 2015

  • Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship Awarded

    Sarah Hill
    Dr Sarah Hill has been awarded a £300,000 Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to research how yellow fever virus spreads amongst wild animal populations and spills over into humans. Her research will help improve our ability to predict and …
     24 Nov 2020

    Dr Sarah Hill has been awarded a £300,000 Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to research …

  • Galloping isn’t such hard work for horses

    A jockey at the British Racing School gallops a racehorse over force plates buried under the track. Photo: Alan Wilson
    For the first time, external mechanical work in galloping racehorses has been measured using force plates as ergometers. The results of this study, conducted by Royal Veterinary College (RVC) researchers in the Structure and Motion Laboratory, have …
     20 Feb 2019
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