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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
Sep 6, 20211 min read
BRAD in September
Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) takes place next month for the second time this year. Organised by Americans for Medical...
Ana Barros
Aug 30, 20211 min read
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...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 2, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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 15, 20211 min read
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...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
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...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 21, 20211 min read
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...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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,...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 4, 20217 min read
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
May 28, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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 26, 20211 min read
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...
Ana Barros
Apr 5, 20211 min read
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 29, 20211 min read
“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...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 26, 20211 min read
NHP shortage
The New York Times has highlighted the growing fears of the US biomedical community as China's export ban on monkeys, vital for research...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 1, 20211 min read
China's ban on research monkey exports hits vaccine testing
An article has appeared in the Spanish publication Quo setting out the concerns of the European biomedical community about the current...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 18, 20216 min read
Fears rise on China research monkey export ban - UnHerd magazine
An article highlighting the implications of the increasing shortages of monkeys for European and US biomedical research, has been...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
The origin of language and memory
Researchers from the Newcastle University, UK, have found a link between the development of communication and memory in human and primate...
Ana Barros
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Inhaled vaccines
Scientists at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA, have identified a new way to deliver a vaccine by aerosol rather than...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 11, 20211 min read
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