Upcoming 'worm robots' EU project
An upcoming EU project aims to develop biological robots from roundworms, that will be engineered to for tasks including performing...
top of page
News from EARA
This page contains all the news outputs from EARA, including press releases and videos, EARA policy and news briefings, plus opinion pieces and significant media articles.
Other pages in this section explain more about EARA on social media and practical information for journalists.
Search
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...
bottom of page