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Malaria vaccine
The World Health Organization has approved a landmark vaccine against malaria for widespread rollout in Africa. The vaccine, developed...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Nobel Prize and mice studies
Research with mice to understand the sensations of heat and touch has been recognised in this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Minipigs for vaccine testing
EARA members, from Denmark and France, have demonstrated how minipigs can help develop and test new vaccines against whooping cough. At...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Regenerating heart cells
A team at EARA member the Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research, Germany, has shown for the first time, using basic research,...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
New way to fight endometriosis
Research at the University of Oxford, UK, has found a potential new way to fight endometriosis - a disease that causes pain, inflammation...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Awards recognise animal research
The role of animals in research has been recognised by one of the most prestigious US medicine awards. This year’s Albert Lasker Basic...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Survey on rodents in research
A survey to analyse the use and welfare of rodents in cancer research is open to collect data until the end of this month. Conducted by...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Events in Greece
Two EARA members in Greece are holding events this October. The “29th meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience” takes place...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Light to kill cancer
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh, UK, have found a way to target and kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells. They used...
Ana Barros
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Animals in autism research
A special report in Spectrum, detailing how a variety of animal models are used to help improve our understanding of autism, has been...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Llama antibodies in Covid-19 spray
A nasal spray therapy developed in llamas, which has been shown to prevent and treat Covid-19, is now moving to clinical trials in...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Italy openness event
In EARA’s first face-to-face event since 2019, members of the Italian biomedical research community came together in Milan, in September,...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 22, 20212 min read
EU Parliament vote concerns
Last week the European Parliament adopted a motion by 667 votes to 4, on a plan ‘to accelerate the transition to innovation without the...
Ana Barros
Sep 20, 20211 min read
#BOARD21 in science magazine
EARA’s global campaign to encourage openness about animal research Get on #BOARD21 has been featured this month in Laboratory Animal...
Ana Barros
Sep 20, 20211 min read
Fighting cancer with Covid technology
Recent studies have shown that vaccine technology used for Covid-19 has been effective in halting the growth of cancerous tumours in...
Ana Barros
Sep 20, 20211 min read
EARA marks awareness day with Lab Rat Chat interview
Marking this week’s Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD2021), EARA has interviewed Jeff Marshall, co-host of the Lab Rat Chat...
Ana Barros
Sep 20, 20211 min read
Press release: EARA concerns over EU vote
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) is deeply concerned over yesterday’s vote in the European Parliament, which threatens the...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 16, 20213 min read
Open call – 3Rs & Communications
Two grants to support young scientists in communicating about animal research and the development of alternative methods have been...
Ana Barros
Sep 13, 20211 min read
Organoid fish eyes
Scientists at Heidelberg University, Germany, have created fish eye models at the lab, paving the way to better understand retinal...
Ana Barros
Sep 13, 20211 min read
‘Long Covid’ in monkeys
Studying macaques, EARA member, the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Netherlands, has discovered the hidden long-term effects Covid-19...
Ana Barros
Sep 13, 20211 min read
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