Understanding resistanceย to Covid-19 in bats
US researchers have gained insights into how bats resist getting ill from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19. Bats can be...
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Gege Li
Sep 232 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 worldโs most challenging health problems โ ...
Gege Li
Sep 161 min read
Understanding booster vaccines
Researchers in France have used โorgan-on-chipโ technology to shed light on the effectiveness of booster vaccines for Covid-19 and other...
Gege Li
Aug 272 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...
Gege Li
Mar 131 min read
Covid-19 vaccine technology to treat rare disease
A therapy, based on the same messenger RNA (mRNA) technology used in Covid-19 vaccines, has successfully corrected a rare liver disease...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Modified mice have โhuman-likeโ COVID-19 symptoms
For the first time, scientists have developed a genetically altered mouse that can get infected with the form of Covid-19 seen in young,...
Gege Li
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Nobel for Covid vaccines research using animals
This yearโs Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to two researchers whose pioneering work relied on mice to develop messenger RNA (mRNA)...
Gege Li
May 22, 20231 min read
Oral mRNA vaccine progress stalls
A project to deliver mRNA vaccines in oral form will not go ahead following an early-stage study in mice. BioNTech, the German company...
Gege Li
May 15, 20231 min read
Animal studies & Covid-19 organ injury
A study in mice has identified ways to reduce the damage done to organs by the Covid-19 virus. Covid-19 can sometimes cause a severe...
Bob Tolliday
Apr 23, 20234 min read
Feature: How animal studies contributed to biomedical breakthroughs in 2022
Ahead of this yearโs Be Open About Animal Research Day (#BOARD23), on 15 June, which highlights how the biomedical research community...
Gege Li
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Covid-19 nasal vaccine in hamsters
A trial vaccine for Covid-19, which is delivered up the nose, provides better protection than an injection, according to a new study in...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 19, 20221 min read
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...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 5, 20222 min read
Phase-out roadmap petition on animal testing
A wide-ranging petition calling for greater controls on animal testing and a roadmap to phase it out in the EU has passed its first...
Georgios Petrellis
Aug 22, 20221 min read
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 8, 20221 min read
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...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 7, 20222 min read
EU Parliament event on animal research
Scientists gave a strong defence of the vital need to use animals in research, at a European Parliament workshop last week, which...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 4, 20221 min read
Air France ends primate transportation
The announcement by Air France, that the airline intends to end its transportation of monkeys is expected to add to the crisis already...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 1, 20222 min read
EARA statement: Air France
The announcement by Air France, that the airline intends to end the transportation of non-human primates (monkeys), adds to the current...
Ana Barros
Mar 21, 20221 min read
FEAM report
A report addressing the challenges of vaccination in older adults in Europe has also highlighted the role of animal models in vaccine...
Ana Barros
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Omicron variant
Recent animal research on the Covid-19 Omicron variant is helping scientists understand how the virus spreads and causes disease....
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