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Today, we’ve made a few changes to the Science Update blog.

Most of these are cosmetic, but those of you who subscribe to the blog – by email, by RSS, or via WordPress.com – may notice a few minor changes.

Why are things changing?

Since we launched in 2007, we’ve been using a free blog provided by WordPress.com. Given the blog’s successes we think we need a little more flexibility to grow and develop things, so we’ve moved to a self-hosted version of WordPress that we can tinker with a bit more.

What will change?

Initially we’ve just changed the design of the blog to look more like our other websites, and making things a bit cleaner and easier to read. However, our regular subscribers may notice a few changes:

If you normally subscribe to the blog by email, we’ll be contacting you shortly to let you know what to do if you still want to receive email updates.

If you use RSS to follow our posts, things won’t change much, but we’ll have a new primary RSS feed – http://feeds.feedburner.com/cancerresearchuk/SHhE. The old feed – http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/feed/ – will still work for the foreseeable future, but it might be worth updating your RSS reader anyway.

(What is ‘RSS’? Find out here: http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/news/newsfeeds/)

If you subscribe via WordPress.com, you will need to manually re-subscribe to this new blog. Sorry about this, but our tech team couldn’t find a way to move you across.

Let us know what you think

As ever, we’re really keen to have your feedback – good or bad. Please use the comments form below, or give us a shout on scienceblog@cancer.org.uk and let us know what you think of the new look.

Henry & the Cancer Research UK blog team

Cancer survivors at a Cancer Research UK Relay for Life event

More people are surviving cancer than ever before.

Thanks to decades of research, survival from cancer has doubled in the last 40 years, giving thousands of people more time with their loved ones.

But this progress simply wouldn’t have been possible without animal research.

At Cancer Research UK, research using animals is part of our efforts to beat cancer. For a start, it’s a legal requirement in this country that all new drugs (not just cancer drugs) are tested in animals before they’re given to patients, to make sure that they’re safe to use.

This week the organisation Animal Aid has called for Cancer Research UK and other medical research charities to stop funding animal research. But cancer kills over 400 people every day in the UK, and all our work is aimed at reducing this death toll.

Our research is entirely supported by public donations, and cancer patients are at the heart of everything we do. Animal research is crucial to make sure more people survive this terrible disease. Continue reading →