The long-term effects of antibiotics on babies
Studies in mice have revealed that antibiotics prescribed for babies can have a serious effect on their gut function in adult life....
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Bob Tolliday
- Sep 19, 2022
- 1 min
Animal data and Omicron booster vaccines
The first booster vaccines, targeting the Omicron variant of Covid-19, have been authorised by regulators across the world solely using...
Maria Vlastara
- Sep 19, 2022
- 1 min
Child heart transplant breakthrough
A partial heart transplant, previously only performed in pigs, has been successfully conducted in the US on a child. Five-month-old Owen...
Maria Vlastara
- Sep 19, 2022
- 1 min
Improved technique to study the bladder using mice
Researchers have developed an improved technique to observe bladder function in mice without the need for anaesthesia. The team from EARA...
Bob Tolliday
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
Toxicity testing without using fish
Swiss and Dutch scientists are working on a four-year project to replace the use of fish in toxicity testing. The project has received...
Maria Vlastara
- Sep 12, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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 5, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 29, 2022
- 1 min
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...
Georgios Petrellis
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
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...
Maria Vlastara
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
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 15, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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....
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
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...
Maria Vlastara
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
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
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
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 27, 2022
- 1 min
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
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 19, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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