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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
Environmental factors can improve reproducibility
At a meeting on improving mouse models of disease held last week at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, scientists and technicians...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20161 min read
Nobel Prize 2015: using animal research to get rid of parasites
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine is shared between William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu, who contributed...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 27, 20162 min read
Mitochondrial Donation: The Animal Research that Paved the Way
Earlier this month Britain become the first country in the world to permit mitochondrial donation to be used in treatment and help...
Bob Tolliday
Dec 8, 20153 min read
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