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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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
Antibiotic resistance in mice
Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, have taken a step forward in understanding antibiotic resistance – a...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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 15, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 5, 20211 min read
Initiative Transparente Tierversuche startet
DFG und „Tierversuche verstehen“ setzen sich für transparente Information und offene Kommunikation über Tierversuche in der Forschung ein...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Portuguese transparency report 2020
The first annual report of biomedical institutions in Portugal, examining how they discuss the use of animals in research, shows...
Ana Barros
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Transparency Agreement in Germany launched
More than 50 German universities, research centres and companies today signed a transparency agreement on animal research, with a...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 - partner organisations & statements
The Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 initiative (#BOARD21) was supported by 85 partners across 22 countries. To be a partner,...
Ana Barros
Jun 30, 20211 min read
Be Open About Animal Research Day - #TransparencyThursday Q&As
EARA's #TransparencyThursday, which features regularly on our Instagram feed (and also on YouTube) is an initiative that allows the...
Ana Barros
Jun 30, 20211 min read
Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 - live events
To celebrate Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 (#BOARD21), institutions in Brazil and Spain organised live events, to talk about...
Ana Barros
Jun 30, 20211 min read
Get ready for Get on #BOARD21
On Thursday, a 24-hour social media campaign, involving 1,000 biomedical institutions across the world, will celebrate proactive...
Ana Barros
Jun 29, 20213 min read
Updated diet for lab rodents
Concerns about the diet of mice and rats and the effect this has on research results, has led to sweeping new recommendations by US...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 28, 20211 min read
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