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An insulin pill to treat diabetes?
Researchers in Canada have successfully tested in mice.a way to treat diabetes with a pill. Now there is hope that patients with diabetes...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 12, 20221 min read
New drug hope for Chagas disease
Scientists have found a possible new drug to treat Chagas disease, after successful trials in both mice and monkeys. Chagas disease is...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Breakthroughs in synthetic mouse embryos
Scientists have created mouse embryos from stem cells, that have developed a brain and a heart, without using either eggs or sperm. The...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read
New treatment for rare brain disease
A study, on mice and patient brain tissues, sheds light on a rare disease and suggests a treatment based on routinely used blood-thinning...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read
Insights into how a rare disease develops
Using studies in mice and patients, researchers have discovered what triggers a rare, severe autoimmune disease. ANCA-associated...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 29, 20221 min read
Single dose microparticles polio vaccine success in rats
Researchers in the US have developed a type of microparticle, that can deliver and release vaccines at set times, to create a single dose...
Georgios Petrellis
Aug 22, 20221 min read
Non-invasive monitoring of vital functions in rats
A new type of jacket, which can be worn by animals to check their bodily functions during biomedical research, has been developed. A team...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 22, 20221 min read
Eye stimulation to treat depression
A treatment for depression, using eye stimulation has been successful in mice. The researchers caused stimulation of the corneal surface...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 15, 20221 min read
Oxygen levels in fish & global warming
A study which aims to predict which species of fish are most at risk from global warming and pollution has been conducted by researchers....
Maria Vlastara
Aug 15, 20221 min read
Animal sentience in insects and worms?
An article in Undark magazine has asked whether invertebrate animals, such as fruit flies, bees or nematode worms, experience pain and...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Making vaccines more effective
UK scientists have discovered a way to boost the effectiveness of vaccines for chronic viral infections and cancers, using mice. When a...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Pig organ transplants in US clinical trials
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to allow clinical trials testing of the transplantation of pig organs into humans....
Maria Vlastara
Jul 31, 20221 min read
Delivering drugs to the eye without pain
Scientists have successfully tested in rabbits, a new method to deliver drugs into the eye with a tear-soluble contact lens. The research...
Maria Vlastara
Jul 27, 20221 min read
Gene editing and the role of animal studies
EARA has published an article that looks at how gene editing technology has revolutionised the way scientists investigate the cause of...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 27, 20221 min read
German MEP laboratory animal fact-finding visit
Marlene Mortler, a German Member of the European Parliament (MEP), visited Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).
Bob Tolliday
Jul 20, 20222 min read
Biomedical sector in Portugal welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Portuguese biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of the comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU, on all...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 19, 20222 min read
Biomedical sector in Spain welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Spanish biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU, including...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Biomedical sector in Netherlands welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Dutch biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU, including the...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Biomedical sector in Belgium welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Belgian biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019) from across the EU,...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Biomedical sector in Italy welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Italian biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU,...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 19, 20223 min read
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