Animal use and Covid-19 research
Researchers have highlighted the critical role that animals played in Covid-19 research in Germany. The team at the German Centre for the...
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Ana Barros
- Oct 11
- 1 min
Malaria vaccine
The World Health Organization has approved a landmark vaccine against malaria for widespread rollout in Africa. The vaccine, developed...
Ana Barros
- Oct 4
- 1 min
New way to fight endometriosis
Research at the University of Oxford, UK, has found a potential new way to fight endometriosis - a disease that causes pain, inflammation...
Ana Barros
- Oct 4
- 1 min
Awards recognise animal research
The role of animals in research has been recognised by one of the most prestigious US medicine awards. This year’s Albert Lasker Basic...
Ana Barros
- Sep 13
- 1 min
‘Long Covid’ in monkeys
Studying macaques, EARA member, the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Netherlands, has discovered the hidden long-term effects Covid-19...
Ana Barros
- Sep 6
- 1 min
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
- Aug 30
- 1 min
BRAD in September
Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) takes place next month for the second time this year. Organised by Americans for Medical...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 2
- 2 min
The Economist on monkeys in neuroscience research
The growing shortage of monkeys needed for biomedical research due to China’s export ban and growing worldwide demand has been examined...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Vision studies in monkeys
Researchers from the Paris Vision Institute, France, have made further groundbreaking advances with a potential therapy to restore sight...
Ana Barros
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Implants to restore vision
Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, have created a brain implant that could restore some vision in...
Ana Barros
- Jul 12
- 1 min
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...
Becky Jones
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Primates in Covid-19 video
A behind-the-scenes video, at a facility in Louisiana, USA, has highlighted the importance of studies using monkeys in the fight against...
Ana Barros
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Antibody drug & Covid-19
The EU has purchased 55,000 doses of a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, which significantly reduces the hospitalisation of...
Becky Jones
- Jun 4
- 7 min
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,...
Ana Barros
- May 28
- 1 min
EARA letter in the Times
EARA executive director, Kirk Leech, has responded (today 28 May 2021) to an opinion piece in The Times from UK actress Joanna Lumley...
Ana Barros
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Human-monkey cell research
An important ethical discussion has begun following the US-China scientific collaboration that has grown human cells in a monkey embryo...
Ana Barros
- Apr 26
- 1 min
2020 medical breakthroughs
To mark World Laboratory Animals Day, EARA has published a feature looking back at some of the medical breakthroughs made possible with...
Ana Barros
- Apr 5
- 1 min
Alzheimer’s studies animal models
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Berlin, have created a gene therapy using mice which could help to treat...
Becky Jones
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Personalised brain grafts
A team from University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, has successfully reduced symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in monkeys by implanting cells...
Bob Tolliday
- Mar 26
- 1 min
“A la comunidad científica le preocupa la escasez de macacos para experimentación”
El desarrollo de las vacunas contra la covid-19 se ha logrado gracias al uso experimental de primates no humanos, como los macacos. Este...