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Fruit flies & cancer
A UK based start-up is to use fruit flies as cancer avatars to help identify personalised treatments for patients with the disease. Vivan...
Ana Barros
Mar 8, 20211 min read
#TransparencyThursday
Two leading scientists from the Netherlands will be answering questions about their animal research on the EARA Instagram page this...
Ana Barros
Mar 1, 20211 min read
NHP shortage
The New York Times has highlighted the growing fears of the US biomedical community as China's export ban on monkeys, vital for research...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 1, 20211 min read
New podcast - lab staff
A new podcast series from Imperial College London, UK, explores the experiences of lab staff at in its animal units, and the...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Value of animal models
A recent publication by Portuguese and Hungarian scientists has confirmed the value of animal studies in diabetes research. The team, led...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Covid-19 nasal spray
An antiviral nasal spray treatment for Covid-19, developed by Dutch and US scientists, has been shown to protect ferrets. The spray,...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 22, 20211 min read
China's ban on research monkey exports hits vaccine testing
An article has appeared in the Spanish publication Quo setting out the concerns of the European biomedical community about the current...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 18, 20216 min read
UK animal research ethics event
A free webinar addressing the legal and ethical issues around animal research in the UK takes place later this month. The UK Research...
Ana Barros
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Dogs & ageing
Researchers in Hungary are studying pet dogs to help understand the ageing process in humans. Living with people means that dogs have...
Ana Barros
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Covid-19 myths
UK animal research advocacy group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) has published an article dispelling the falsehoods being spread...
Ana Barros
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Fears rise on China research monkey export ban - UnHerd magazine
An article highlighting the implications of the increasing shortages of monkeys for European and US biomedical research, has been...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Huntington's disease research
Researchers at the University of Barcelona, Spain, have found mutations in a protein that can be linked to Huntingtonโs disease, a...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
The origin of language and memory
Researchers from the Newcastle University, UK, have found a link between the development of communication and memory in human and primate...
Ana Barros
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Targeting cancer cells
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, have identified how a unique property of cancer cells could provide a new method of killing...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Imaging zebrafish for ALS research
Scientists at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, Canada, have created an imaging tool to visualise the motor...
Ana Barros
Feb 8, 20211 min read
US poll on animal research
Three recent public opinion polls held by the Foundation of Biomedical Research (FBR), US, show that acceptance of animal research in the...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Understanding sepsis
Research from the EARA member Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciรชncia (IGC), Portugal, has found new evidence to understand and fight sepsis - a...
Ana Barros
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Reversing paralysis in mice
Scientists at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have made paralysed mice walk again by stimulating healing in the spinal cord (video)....
Bob Tolliday
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Ben Stiller & free event on MND
An online US event looking at the path to a new treatment for ALS (or MND), based on a patient story, takes place next week. Hosted by...
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
MND breakthrough
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh, UK, have discovered a way in which neurons can be repaired, so as to stop muscle wastage in...
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
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