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This page contains all the news outputs from EARA, including press releases and videos, EARA policy and news briefings, plus opinion pieces and significant media articles.
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Gege Li
Sep 30, 20241 min read
Top US research prize recognises studies with animals
The 2024 Lasker Awards, recognising fundamental discoveries and clinical advances in human health, have gone to US researchers who used...

Gege Li
Sep 30, 20241 min read
Rodent study to treat cataracts
US researchers have used ground squirrels and rats to identify a protein that can reverse cataracts in the eye, which may lead to...

Gege Li
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Treating spine injuries with animal ‘slime’
Scientists have developed a synthetic gel, inspired by the protective ‘slime’ barrier found in many animals, which could help recovery...

Gege Li
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Monoclonal antibodies tackle major health threats
Studies from the UK and US have shown how antibodies are being used against some of the world’s most challenging health problems – ...

Nuno Gonçalves
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Understanding what makes us sneeze and cough
US research, using mice, has examined which neurons in our airways trigger different sneezing and coughing reflexes. Sneezing and...

Gege Li
Sep 16, 20242 min read
Mpox vaccine tests show promise in monkeys
A new vaccine, under development for mpox, could give better protection against the virus than existing vaccines, a study in monkeys has...

Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Nanoparticle heart stimulation in animal studies
Researchers in Sweden have tested a technique, that successfully stimulated the heart in different species of animals, and could offer an...

Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Studying how limbs develop – EARA Q&A video
Moisés Mallo, a principal investigator at EARA member the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC), Portugal, features in the latest episode...

Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Research on tadpoles to help intensive care patients
Using a drug approved for Alzheimer’s, US researchers have put tadpoles into a hibernation-like state and may have found a way to help...

Bob Tolliday
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Concerns at unregulated use of antibiotics in research
A study has found that widespread and excessive use of antibiotics, unregulated access to critical drugs, as well as disposal practices...

Gege Li
Sep 2, 20241 min read
New Alzheimer’s drug
A first-of-its-kind Alzheimer’s drug that slows cognitive decline in early-stage patients, that was developed using animal research, has...

Gege Li
Sep 2, 20241 min read
Healing wounds with roundworms
Proteins produced by parasitic roundworms could offer a better way to heal skin wounds without leaving scars, a new US study has found....

Gege Li
Aug 27, 20241 min read
Treating bowel disease using caterpillars
A recent interview has highlighted the emerging value of caterpillars to the study of diseases of the intestines and how this...

Gege Li
Aug 27, 20242 min read
Insights into treating long Covid
US studies, using animals, have uncovered new information about the long-term effects of Covid-19 and the health complications it can...

Nuno Gonçalves
Aug 23, 20241 min read
Expectant mother’s microbiome affects baby brain
UK research, using mice, has revealed that conditions in a mother’s gut during pregnancy influences brain development in her unborn baby....

Gege Li
Aug 19, 20242 min read
Using parasites to treat disease
By modifying different parasites, researchers have found separate ways to deliver drugs to the brain and develop a more effective vaccine...

Nuno Gonçalves
Aug 19, 20241 min read
Stress-free mice weighing with computer vision
Research from the US has developed a new non-invasive method to effectively weigh mice using computer vision, enhancing animal welfare in...

Gege Li
Aug 19, 20241 min read
Accelerating drug discovery in animals
Biotechnology companies are increasingly looking to large-scale animal studies, that can test multiple potential treatments at once, to...

Georgios Petrellis
Aug 12, 20241 min read
Understanding lung repair after respiratory infection
Researchers in Belgium have discovered a novel population of immune cells in the lungs that promote regeneration after injury caused...

Gege Li
Aug 12, 20241 min read
Reducing mice in cancer research using chicken eggs – video
The value of using chicken eggs to study cancer has been highlighted in a recent video , which holds the potential to reduce how many...
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