Research on tadpoles to help intensive care patients
Using a drug approved for Alzheimerโs, US researchers have put tadpoles into a hibernation-like state and may have found a way to help...
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Gege Li
- Sep 2
- 1 min
New Alzheimerโs drug
A first-of-its-kind Alzheimerโs drug that slows cognitive decline in early-stage patients, that wasย developed using animal research, has...
Gege Li
- Sep 2
- 1 min
New gene target for Huntingtonโs treatment?
Using 3D brain organoids, researchers have linked a gene with Huntingtonโs disease for the first time, which may provide a new target for...
Gege Li
- Aug 27
- 1 min
Treating bowel disease using caterpillars
A recent interview ย has highlighted the emerging value of caterpillars to the study of diseases of the intestines and how this...
Nuno Gonรงalves
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Expectant motherโs microbiome affects baby brain
UK research, using mice, has revealed that conditions in aย motherโs gut during pregnancy influences brain development in her unborn baby....
Gege Li
- Aug 19
- 2 min
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...
Gege Li
- Aug 5
- 1 min
Monkey study for treating Parkinsonโs
Researchers in the US have delivered human neurons, that are damaged in Parkinsonโs, into monkeys as a new approach for treating the...
The European Animal Research Association
- Jul 12
- 2 min
Parkinsonโs patients learn more about research with monkeys
People with Parkinsonโs have had the opportunity to learn more about biomedical research on the condition, involving the use of monkeys,...
Nuno Gonรงalves
- May 7
- 1 min
US rat studies set new hope for rare brain disease
Research at Stanford University, California, is making progress to understand a rare genetic brain disease and develop potential...
Gege Li
- Apr 8
- 1 min
The role of immune cells in Alzheimer's
Mice with transplanted human brain cells may provide an improved way to study the development of Alzheimerโs disease (AD). Researchers,...
Gege Li
- Apr 8
- 1 min
Marmosets contribute to brain research
Two recent studies, in Japan, have shown the value of using marmoset monkeysย to study brain conditions. Research at Kobe...
Gege Li
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Understanding how attention works in monkeys โ EARA Q&A
In the latest episodeย of EARAโs #TransparencyThursday series, PhD student Esperanza Domingo Gil, of the Cognitive Neurophysiology...
Nuno Gonรงalves
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Mice and organoid study for ALS
Research from Germany, using brain organoids and mice, could bring forward new drug therapies for a fatal brain disease. Amyotrophic...
Bob Tolliday
- Feb 12
- 1 min
Ideological decision halts neuroscience research with monkeys
EARA has expressed its deep concern at the ideologically-based decision of the competent authority for the federal state of Bremen,...
The European Animal Research Association
- Feb 6
- 2 min
EARA statement โ scientific concerns over Bremen state ruling
The European Animal Research Association is deeply concerned by the ideologically based decision of the competent authority for the...
Nuno Gonรงalves
- Jan 22
- 1 min
Brain organoids to 'revolutionise' neurosciences
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed mini-organs from human fetal brain tissue, offering a groundbreaking approach to studying...
Gege Li
- Dec 18, 2023
- 1 min
New insights into stroke recovery
Swedish researchers have successfully treated mice and rats so that they regain sensation following a stroke, even several days after it...
Gege Li
- Dec 11, 2023
- 1 min
Videos on animal use at Belgian university
EARA member Ghent University (UGent), Belgium, has published two videosย of its facilities and laboratories to explain how and why they...
Nuno Gonรงalves
- Nov 20, 2023
- 1 min
Early-life stress alters brain in rats
US researchers have found that early-life stress in rats leads to more significant changes in brain genes than childhood head injuries....
Nuno Gonรงalves
- Nov 12, 2023
- 1 min
Monkey research leads to revolutionary Parkinson's treatment
Animal research has paved the way for a spinal implant that has given a 62-year-old man with Parkinson's disease the ability to walk...
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