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Treating MS with gene-edited brain cells
UK researchers have used gene editing to alter human brain cells and successfully repair damaged nerves in mice โ a potential treatment...
Gege Li
Oct 21, 20241 min read
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Map of fruit fly brain gives major insights
The first map of the entire brain of a fruit fly has been published, promising to provide unprecedented knowledge into how the brain...
Gege Li
Oct 7, 20241 min read
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Game-changer schizophrenia drug
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a revolutionary new treatment for schizophrenia โ the first in 30 years. Schizophrenia...
Georgios Petrellis
Oct 7, 20241 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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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, 20241 min read
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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
Sep 2, 20241 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Aug 27, 20241 min read
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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....
Nuno Gonรงalves
Aug 23, 20241 min read
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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 19, 20242 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Aug 5, 20241 min read
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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,...
The European Animal Research Association
Jul 12, 20242 min read
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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...
Nuno Gonรงalves
May 7, 20241 min read
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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, 20241 min read
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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
Apr 8, 20241 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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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...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Feb 19, 20241 min read
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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,...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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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...
The European Animal Research Association
Feb 6, 20242 min read
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Brain organoids to 'revolutionise' neurosciences
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed mini-organs from human fetal brain tissue, offering a groundbreaking approach to studying...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Jan 22, 20241 min read
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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 18, 20231 min read
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