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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 7, 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
May 4, 20201 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...
Ana Barros
Apr 16, 20202 min read
Infographics: The key stages to develop a Covid-19 vaccine
Around the world, scientists are working to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. The process to develop drugs and vaccines is usually long and...
Ana Barros
Apr 15, 20202 min read
Insights into food disorders with mice study
Portuguese research, has found a new link between the digestive and nervous systems which could lead to a better understanding on...
Ana Barros
Apr 14, 20201 min read
Labs scramble to protect research
Institutions across the world are rising to the challenge of preserving their research on the Covid-19 crisis, as labs shutdown and...
Ana Barros
Apr 6, 20201 min read
Coronavirus: The search for an animal model to study coronavirus
Scientists around the world are in a race to find the animal species that is the most suitable to use in tests for a Covid-19 virus...
Ana Barros
Mar 9, 20201 min read
Coronavirus: Animal testing plays part in the race to find a vaccine
As the Chinese coronavirus spreads, scientists around the world are working non-stop to find a vaccine and animal models are a vital part...
Ana Barros
Feb 10, 20201 min read
Fighting skin cancer with a vaccine
Scientists in Portugal have created a vaccine based on nanotechnology which can prevent the development of skin cancer in mice. The...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Studying mice helps explain why malaria patients suffer organ damage
Experiments with mice have helped researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany, and the University of...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Studying mice to help prevent heart attacks and stroke
Research from Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, has used animal imaging studies to identify when arteries become...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Stripping down bacterial armour: a new way to fight anthrax
Research scientists in Belgium have found a new method to treat anthrax disease in infected mice, raising hope for new effective...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20201 min read
An effective treatment for lung fibrosis in mice
Scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain, have succeeded in treating pulmonary fibrosis disease...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Study in mice shown to destroy brain tumours
A study by French and US researchers has uncovered the beneficial role played by a network of lymphatic vessels, tubes which carry...
Ana Barros
Feb 3, 20201 min read
Venom gland organoids may lead to wider treatments
Scientists from the Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands, have grown organoids of snake venom glands to produce real venom, which could be...
Ana Barros
Feb 3, 20201 min read
Sleeping bears may help to fight muscle atrophy
Researchers in Germany have studied hibernating bears to understand how they avoid muscle wasting. The findings from EARA member the Max...
Ana Barros
Jan 13, 20201 min read
Bone tissues 'produced on an industrial scale'
Scientists from EARA member KU Leuven, Belgium, have succeeded in growing bone tissue on a large scale. Based on studies with laboratory...
Ana Barros
Jan 13, 20201 min read
The Research Animals That Have Made A Difference
Over the last 40 years, every Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine but one has depended on work using animals. From modern vaccines that...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20195 min read
Animal research & Downton Abbey
In one of the goriest scenes on television last year, Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey collapsed after violently coughing up blood all over...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20161 min read
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