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EARA Q&A – the care & welfare of mice used in breast cancer research
The latest episode of EARA’s #TransparencyThursday series has featured Alexandra Gkrouzoudi, a vet and the animal facility manager at...
Gege Li
Nov 13, 20231 min read
Monkey research leads to revolutionary Parkinson's treatment
Animal research has paved the way for a spinal implant that has given a 62-year-old man with Parkinson's disease the ability to walk...
Nuno Gonçalves
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Modified mice have ‘human-like’ COVID-19 symptoms
For the first time, scientists have developed a genetically altered mouse that can get infected with the form of Covid-19 seen in young,...
Nuno Gonçalves
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Treatment for rare children’s disorder progress
After successful studies in mice, of a rare genetic disorder that affects children, UK scientists are ready to begin human trials of a...
Gege Li
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Neuroscience awards honour numerous animal researchers
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced the recipients of its 2023 Early Career Awards, with several researchers who use animals...
Gege Li
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Combating childhood kidney disease using mice
UK scientists have made progress in understanding a kidney disorder in children through a study using genetically altered mice. The...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Zika infection in mice and monkeys
Recent studies using animals, in the USA and Brazil, have shed light on the effect of Zika virus infection during pregnancy, which could...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Reducing animal use in lung cancer research
Researchers in Norway have found a way to improve a non-animal method to study lung cancer, which reduces the numbers of animals needed...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Swiss university prizes for non-animal methods
The UZH 3Rs Award, newly introduced by EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which highlights its researcher's advances in...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Bone disease treatment works in mice
Chinese researchers have discovered that a drug currently used to treat malaria can also reverse bone loss in mice that have a serious...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Nobel for Covid vaccines research using animals
This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to two researchers whose pioneering work relied on mice to develop messenger RNA (mRNA)...
Gege Li
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Dirt exposure – mice study
Researchers in Sweden are challenging the popular theory, which suggests that greater exposure to bacteria at a young age means less...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Dutch institute hails use of animals in cancer research
EARA member the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its animal facility with a symposium...
Gege Li
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Meeting the public at Researchers' Night
This year’s European Researchers’ Night provided a great opportunity to talk directly to the public about the use of animals in...
Bob Tolliday
Oct 9, 20231 min read
Research reduces animal use in gene editing
An innovative gene editing process can reduce the number of animal experiments needed to study complex genetic diseases, according to...
Gege Li
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Insights into kidney injury using mice
Danish researchers have found that kidney damage after injury can spread to unaffected areas in mice, providing new insights to improve...
Gege Li
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Animal studies into regrowing teeth
Japanese scientists are making progress in tooth regeneration, with successful results in mice, ferrets and dogs. It is hoped the...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Discovering how neurons die in Alzheimer’s
The cause of brain neuron death in Alzheimer’s disease – a key hallmark of the condition – has finally been identified, according to a...
Gege Li
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Awards recognise research using animals
This year’s prestigious Lasker Awards include scientists who have used animals as part of their research into cancer and eye diseases....
Gege Li
Sep 25, 20231 min read
'Inverse vaccine' for autoimmune diseases
US researchers have used mice to develop an ‘inverse vaccine’ with the potential to combat autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis....
Nuno Gonçalves
Sep 25, 20231 min read
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