Mice

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.

Study in mice shown to destroy brain tumours

Ana Barros

Feb 3, 2020
1 min

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...

Venom gland organoids may lead to wider treatments

Ana Barros

Feb 3, 2020
1 min

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...

Sleeping bears may help to fight muscle atrophy

Ana Barros

Jan 13, 2020
1 min

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...

Bone tissues 'produced on an industrial scale'

Ana Barros

Jan 13, 2020
1 min

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...

The Research Animals That Have Made A Difference

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
5 min

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

Aug 15, 2016
1 min

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...

Environmental factors can improve reproducibility

Bob Tolliday

Aug 15, 2016
1 min

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...

Nobel Prize 2015: using animal research to get rid of parasites

Bob Tolliday

Jan 27, 2016
2 min

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...

Mitochondrial Donation: The Animal Research that Paved the Way

Bob Tolliday

Dec 8, 2015
3 min

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...