New EU database on animal research
The EU Commission has published its first database including information on projects using animals for scientific purposes. The...
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Ana Barros
- Jul 26
- 1 min
EARA free event in August
EARA will hold an online science communication event as part of the FENS Regional Meeting next month. Improving Openness in Animal...
Ana Barros
- Jul 19
- 1 min
Closure of a lab animal breeder
Scientists in Australia are concerned that the announced closure of the country’s leading breeder and supplier of lab mice and rats will...
Ana Barros
- Jul 19
- 1 min
Stem cells & Covid and Zika infections
Scientists at The Francis Crick Institute, UK, have discovered a process in mammalian stem cells that can protect against viral...
Ana Barros
- Jul 19
- 1 min
EU animal stats 2018
The European Commission has published EU-wide statistics for 2018, for the use of animals in biomedical research. The headline figure for...
Ana Barros
- Jul 19
- 1 min
Heart failure & pig studies
US scientists have created a therapy which can help heart muscle self-repair after a heart attack. The team, at Baylor College of...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Vision studies in monkeys
Researchers from the Paris Vision Institute, France, have made further groundbreaking advances with a potential therapy to restore sight...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Mouse embryo growth
Scientists in Germany have replicated the formation of a mouse embryo in a dish, allowing them to analyse its development in much more...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Nerve regrowth drugs
Scientists at EARA member, the University of Padua, Italy, have created a drug treatment that promotes nerve regrowth, which could reduce...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Find treatments for rare disease
After successful tests in mice, scientists from Cima University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, have developed a gene therapy for a rare and...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Mice in kidney disease
Researchers at EARA member the University of Padova, Italy, have found a potential target for early treatment of kidney inflammation...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Antibiotic resistance in mice
Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, have taken a step forward in understating antibiotic resistance – a...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Implants to restore vision
Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, have created a brain implant that could restore some vision in...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Llama antibodies Covid-19
Researchers at EARA member Ghent University, Belgium, have found that antibodies taken from just one llama (pictured) could help to...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Treatment for a rare disease
Researchers in Portugal are conducting tests on drugs, already approved for other diseases, to treat a debilitating neurodegenerative...
Ana Barros
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Refinement prize
A European 3Rs body is seeking applications for an award to recognise new methods to refine animal testing. The European Partnership for...
Ana Barros
- Jul 12
- 1 min
3Rs grant for Belgian university
EARA member Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has been awarded a €250,000 grant to promote alternative methods to animal testing. The...
Ana Barros
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Animals in neuroscience research
Insights into the use of monkeys and mice in neuroscience research have been highlighted in a video produced by EARA member Ernst...
Ana Barros
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Lizards & skin cancer
A rare breed of gecko may hold answers about how skin cancer in humans and mammals. The lemon-frost yellow leopard gecko was observed by...
Becky Jones
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...