Christopher Degeling

Major pharmaceutical companies have shown little interest in developing effective treatments for illnesses such as Ebola virus disease. AAP Image/David Crosling

August 19, 2014

How Western national interest drives Ebola drug development

Christopher Degeling, University of Sydney

Ebola virus disease typically only occurs in rural and remote areas among resource-poor populations. Until the large, recent outbreak in West Africa, cases of the illness were a rarity. So the fact that…

The authors say their findings raise important questions about the central role of animal models in biomedical research. Understanding Animal Research

February 21, 2013

Of mice and men: role of mice in biomedical research questioned

Christopher Degeling, University of Sydney and Jane Johnson, Macquarie University

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National of Academy Sciences) shows that mice are poor models for human inflammatory diseases. The paper, which focused…

Overweight pets have become collateral casualties in the ongoing war against human obesity. MrTGT/Flickr

January 23, 2013

It’s a dog’s life when man’s best friend becomes his fattest

Christopher Degeling, University of Sydney

A study published this morning in Nature offers further insight into how dogs became domesticated. The comparative analysis of human, canine and wolf genomes suggests that humans and dogs have evolved…

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