Cancer research for humans and dogs
The US news programme 60 Minutes has aired an episode on the key role research using dogs plays in the search for drugs and treatments...
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Bob Tolliday
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
Gene editing and the role of animal studies
EARA has published an article that looks at how gene editing technology has revolutionised the way scientists investigate the cause of...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Biomedical sector in Spain welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Spanish biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU, including...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Biomedical sector in Netherlands welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Dutch biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU, including the...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Biomedical sector in Italy welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The Italian biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU,...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Biomedical sector in France welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The French biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics for 2019, from across the EU,...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
Biomedical sector in Germany welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The German biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics (2019), from across the EU,...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
European biomedical sector welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics for 2019, from across the...
Maria Vlastara
- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
Dog cancer vaccine
A cancer vaccine being developed, in the Netherlands, has been found to be effective in treating multiple types of cancers in mice and...
Ana Barros
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Gene therapy for skin cancer
Researchers at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, have developed a new gene therapy for a common skin cancer, which accounts for...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 23, 2021
- 1 min
UAR response to MBR protests
UK advocacy group Understanding Animal Research have published an open letter in The Times in response to protests surrounding dog...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 5, 2021
- 1 min
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...
Bob Tolliday
- Jun 21, 2021
- 1 min
Antibodies for dogs
Scientists at the UK firm PetMedix, have created a system which could help make better potential new antibody medicines for dogs. In...
Ana Barros
- Apr 23, 2021
- 5 min
Feature: Biomedical breakthroughs in 2020 - how research with animals contributed
While Covid-19 research has dominated the headlines, day-to-day research into many other conditions to improve our understanding of the...
Ana Barros
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Animals & Covid-19
As concerns grow over whether animals could continue to infect humans or other animals, Covid-19 researchers are seeking to identify...
Ana Barros
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min
Brain Prize 2021
The largest annual prize for neuroscience has been awarded to four scientists for their research on migraine studies, using animal...
Ana Barros
- Feb 15, 2021
- 1 min
Dogs & ageing
Researchers in Hungary are studying pet dogs to help understand the ageing process in humans. Living with people means that dogs have...
Ana Barros
- Aug 3, 2020
- 1 min
How dogs and pigs communicate with humans
A team of researchers at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, have analysed the differences between how dogs and pigs communicate with...
Ana Barros
- Jul 20, 2020
- 1 min
UK animal use stats
The UK government has released its 2019 annual statistics on animals used in scientific procedures. The figures show that 3,401,517...
Ana Barros
- Jul 13, 2020
- 1 min
Dogs & Covid-19
Researchers at EARA member the University of Helsinki, Finland, have successfully trained dogs to detect Covid-19 in human samples using...
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