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Coronavirus infection treatment for cats gives insights on long COVID
US researchers have successfully treated cats with a severe coronavirus infection using a combination of stem cells and antiviral drugs, offering insights that could benefit both veterinary and human medicine.ย
Inรชs Serrenho
Jul 211 min read
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Mauritius breeder highlights importance of research monkeys โ video
EARA member Bioculture Group , a Mauritius-based breeder and exporter of cynomolgus macaque monkeys for biomedical research, has...
Gege Li
Mar 103 min read
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Bat organoids to study infectious diseases
Organoids derived from bats have been used to understand bat-borne viruses and diseases, in a study from Japan. Bats can carry viruses...
Gege Li
Feb 241 min read
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First mouse strain that can naturally get severe Covid-19
US researchers are hopeful that research on Covid-19 can be greatly improved, using an existing strain of lab mouse that is highly...
Gege Li
Dec 30, 20241 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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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 23, 20242 min read
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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
Sep 16, 20241 min read
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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
Aug 27, 20242 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Mar 13, 20241 min read
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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,...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Nov 6, 20231 min read
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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
Oct 9, 20231 min read
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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 22, 20231 min read
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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...
Gege Li
May 15, 20231 min read
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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...
Bob Tolliday
Apr 23, 20234 min read
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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...
Gege Li
Apr 11, 20231 min read
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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 19, 20221 min read
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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...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Georgios Petrellis
Aug 22, 20221 min read
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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
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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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 7, 20222 min read
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