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Ana Barros
May 26, 20201 min read
Animal studies and Covid-19 origins
Animal experiments, cell studies and computational models are being used by researchers around the world to find the origins of the...
Ana Barros
May 18, 20201 min read
Covid-19 knowledge mapping
A team at ISC-PIF, France, has created a series of knowledge maps to identify key areas of study relating to Covid-19. The study...
Ana Barros
May 11, 20201 min read
Llama antibodies could help combat Covid-19
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, have found that antibodies taken from a llama are some of the first to...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in the Netherlands uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in Italy uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in Switzerland uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20202 min read
Research in Germany uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in Belgium uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in Spain uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in France uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...
Ana Barros
May 4, 20201 min read
Online efforts in times of pandemic
An alliance of six life science research institutes, in Portugal, has launched a website to centralise and share scientific content and...
Ana Barros
May 4, 20201 min read
Ebola drug speeds up recovery from Covid-19
A US-led clinical trial of a candidate treatment for Covid-19 has been shown to speed up recovery. Remdesivir, made by Gilead Sciences,...
Ana Barros
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Fighting coronavirus using computer modelling
The Human Brain Project, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its partner Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, are now using their knowledge...
Ana Barros
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Belgian scientists set out lab lockdown measures
The biomedical community in Belgium has issued a statement explaining the measures it has taken to protect staff and research animals...
Ana Barros
Apr 27, 20201 min read
Research calms concerns of Covid-19 in animals
Fears of domestic and farm animals being infected by Covid-19 and in turn spreading it further, has led experts to seek answers using...
Ana Barros
Apr 24, 20205 min read
Activists want to stop animal testing for Covid-19 vaccines - EARA responds
The New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society (NZAVS) recently published an article on the use of animals in research to combat Covid-19. In...
Ana Barros
Apr 20, 20201 min read
World’s largest vaccine companies work together on Covid-19
EARA members Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have announced a vaccine collaboration to fight Covid-19. The vaccine is based on the...
Ana Barros
Apr 20, 20201 min read
New coronaviruses discovered in bats
Scientists studying viruses in wild animals have found six new coronaviruses in bats in southeast Asia. The team, from the Smithsonian...
Ana Barros
Apr 20, 20201 min read
High public acceptance of UK animal research in pandemic survey
An opinion survey by Understanding Animal Research (UAR) has shown a high public acceptance of animal research to find treatments for...
Ana Barros
Apr 16, 20202 min read
What animals are used in coronavirus research?
In the search for vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 animals can play an essential role in both basic research and testing. Various...
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