In both instances, the articles were unashamedly one-sided and demonised not just the researchers involved the study, but the use of animals in science in general.
Wrong broke new ground by researching the movement of electrolytes through the gut wall, which involved the study of faeces, including those of camels at London zoo.
Presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, in Helsinki, the research involved the study of 280 five to six-day-old embryos, all of which had the correct number of chromosomes.
The research, published in the BMJ, followed up on two previous reports that hinted at a link between Zika and arthrogryposis, and involved the study of seven children born during the autumn of 2015, all of whom had the joint condition and displayed a similar pattern of limb abnormalities.
The study, being published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, is small and far from perfect, but confirms their convictions about why it is so hard to lose weight and keep it off, say obesity researchers who were not involved the study.
The second analysis involved the study of factor IX and factor IX-bp interaction.
