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Animal studies and new cholesterol jab
A new type of injection to lower cholesterol in the blood has now been approved for use both by EU and the UK. EARA member, Novartis,...
Ana Barros
Sep 6, 20211 min read
Photo prize
An image of blood vessels has won the British Heart Foundation (BHF) prize, celebrating 60 years of research funded by the charity. The...
Ana Barros
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Gut bacteria rewind ageing brain
Scientists at University College Cork, Ireland, have shown the effect that bacteria in the intestine can have on behaviour and brain...
Ana Barros
Aug 16, 20211 min read
Closure of a lab animal breeder
Scientists in Australia are concerned that the announced closure of the country’s leading breeder and supplier of lab mice and rats will...
Ana Barros
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Stem cells & Covid and Zika infections
Scientists at The Francis Crick Institute, UK, have discovered a process in mammalian stem cells that can protect against viral...
Ana Barros
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Mouse embryo growth
Scientists in Germany have replicated the formation of a mouse embryo in a dish, allowing them to analyse its development in much more...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Nerve regrowth drugs
Scientists at EARA member, the University of Padua, Italy, have created a drug treatment that promotes nerve regrowth, which could reduce...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Find treatments for rare disease
After successful tests in mice, scientists from Cima University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, have developed a gene therapy for a rare and...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Mice in kidney disease
Researchers at EARA member the University of Padova, Italy, have found a potential target for early treatment of kidney inflammation...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Antibiotic resistance in mice
Researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, have taken a step forward in understanding antibiotic resistance – a...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Treatment for a rare disease
Researchers in Portugal are conducting tests on drugs, already approved for other diseases, to treat a debilitating neurodegenerative...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Animals in neuroscience research
Insights into the use of monkeys and mice in neuroscience research have been highlighted in a video produced by EARA member Ernst...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Lizards & skin cancer
A rare breed of gecko may hold answers about how skin cancer in humans and mammals. The lemon-frost yellow leopard gecko was observed by...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 5, 20211 min read
Updated diet for lab rodents
Concerns about the diet of mice and rats and the effect this has on research results, has led to sweeping new recommendations by US...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 28, 20211 min read
mRNA malaria vaccine
Scientists have developed an effective vaccine against malaria, using the mRNA technology first seen in the successful Covid-19 vaccines....
Bob Tolliday
Jun 28, 20211 min read
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...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 21, 20211 min read
3Rs prize
Work on organoids that could replace the use of mice in some brain studies has won the UK’s major prize for non-animal methods in...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Smartwatch delivers insulin
Researchers at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a device which can control the release of insulin through a smartwatch....
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Feature: Why do we need to use animals in neuroscience research?
Perhaps more than in any other field of biomedical research, it is essential to use animals to understand the functions of the brain,...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 4, 20217 min read
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