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An upcoming EU project aims to develop biological robots from roundworms, that will be engineered to for tasks including performing...

Gege Li
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Insights from bat brain cells
A special group of neurons, identified in the brains of bats, appear to help the animals to distinguish both time and space, in relation...

Maria Vlastara
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
Breakthroughs in synthetic mouse embryos
Scientists have created mouse embryos from stem cells, that have developed a brain and a heart, without using either eggs or sperm. The...

Ana Barros
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
3D bioprinting & alternatives
Two European projects are seeking to reduce the use of animals in research by using 3D bioprinting. The BRIGHTER project aims to overcome...

Bob Tolliday
- Apr 15, 2021
- 3 min
EARA joins debate at Israel event
In the latest in the series of openness events across Europe, EARA held a discussion with institutions in Israel about the importance of...

Ana Barros
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
EARA event in Israel
In April, EARA will hold a free online science communication event in collaboration with the Inter-University Forum for Biomedical...

Ana Barros
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Mouse embryos
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, have grown mouse embryos in bottles, offering a unique way to observe how a...

Ana Barros
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
EARA growth
The European Animal Research Association (EARA), founded just seven years ago, has recently become the biggest advocacy organisation on...

Ana Barros
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Avoiding side effects of cancer drugs
Scientists from EARA member the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), Israel, have found a way to prevent kidney damage during the use of...

Bob Tolliday
- Feb 8, 2021
- 1 min
Targeting cancer cells
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, have identified how a unique property of cancer cells could provide a new method of killing...

Ana Barros
- Jul 27, 2020
- 1 min
Heart regeneration & zebrafish
Israeli scientists have gone a step further in understanding how zebrafish can heal their own hearts. The team at the Weizmann Institute...

Ana Barros
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
Israeli media intervention
Criticism of inaccurate reporting on research using animals, in an Israeli online publication, has seen the article corrected and more...

Ana Barros
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
Covid-19 research using monkeys
In the research to combat Covid-19, one of the most important, and in demand, animals to use as models for understanding the virus, and...


Ana Barros
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
‘Human body’ on a chip to help drug development
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Harvard University, USA, have created organs-on-a chip that may be a better predictor of...
Ana Barros
- Jun 18, 2018
- 1 min
Pancreatic cell size in negative relationship with mammal lifespans
A recent study indicates that species with larger pancreatic cells tend to have shorter lives. Yuval Dor, a developmental biologist at...
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