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Combating childhood kidney disease using mice
UK scientists have made progress in understanding a kidney disorder in children through a study using genetically altered mice. The...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Eurogroup breast cancer misinformation slammed
EARA has responded to false claims by an activist group that animal studies have ‘a lack of relevance’ in cancer research. On the recent...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Zika infection in mice and monkeys
Recent studies using animals, in the USA and Brazil, have shed light on the effect of Zika virus infection during pregnancy, which could...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Swiss university prizes for non-animal methods
The UZH 3Rs Award, newly introduced by EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which highlights its researcher's advances in...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Alzheimer’s transferred to rats via gut bacteria
Memory loss and other characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease can be transferred to healthy rats by giving them gut bacteria from...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Bone disease treatment works in mice
Chinese researchers have discovered that a drug currently used to treat malaria can also reverse bone loss in mice that have a serious...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Monkey survives two years with pig kidney transplant
US scientists have made a breakthrough in organ transplantation, with a macaque monkey surviving for more than two years after receiving...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Mushroom microdoses & rats
Researchers in Denmark have observed reduced stress in rats after microdoses of psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in some...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 16, 20231 min read
Call to join US openness initiative
An initiative in the US to help bring about a future Transparency Agreement (TA), on the use of animals in research, has been launched....
Bob Tolliday
Oct 16, 20231 min read
German researchers warn of pressures to stop animal research
Scientists have spoken out about how the pressure by German authorities to prevent biomedical studies using animals is becoming...
Gege Li
Oct 13, 20232 min read
The necessity of animal research highlighted on Belgian TV
A Belgian TV programme featuring a leading researcher in neuroscience has recently presented a stimulating discussion on whether animal...
Gege Li
Oct 13, 20232 min read
A decade of dialogue – EARA gains its 150th member
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has now welcomed its 150th member institution, and to mark this achievement, EARA senior...
Gege Li
Oct 10, 20237 min read
Nobel for Covid vaccines research using animals
This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to two researchers whose pioneering work relied on mice to develop messenger RNA (mRNA)...
Gege Li
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Dirt exposure – mice study
Researchers in Sweden are challenging the popular theory, which suggests that greater exposure to bacteria at a young age means less...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Dutch institute hails use of animals in cancer research
EARA member the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its animal facility with a symposium...
Gege Li
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Meeting the public at Researchers' Night
This year’s European Researchers’ Night provided a great opportunity to talk directly to the public about the use of animals in...
Bob Tolliday
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Research reduces animal use in gene editing
An innovative gene editing process can reduce the number of animal experiments needed to study complex genetic diseases, according to...
Gege Li
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Insights into kidney injury using mice
Danish researchers have found that kidney damage after injury can spread to unaffected areas in mice, providing new insights to improve...
Gege Li
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Animal studies into regrowing teeth
Japanese scientists are making progress in tooth regeneration, with successful results in mice, ferrets and dogs. It is hoped the...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 2, 20231 min read
EARA Patient Discovery project launched
EARA’s Patient Discovery initiative, aimed at raising awareness about the use of animals in research among patient groups, has had a...
The European Animal Research Association
Sep 29, 20233 min read
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