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What animals are used in coronavirus research?

Ana Barros

Apr 16, 2020
2 min

What animals are used in coronavirus research?

In the search for vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 animals can play an essential role in both basic research and testing. Various...

Infographics: The key stages to develop a Covid-19 vaccine

Ana Barros

Apr 15, 2020
2 min

Infographics: The key stages to develop a Covid-19 vaccine

Around the world, scientists are working to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. The process to develop drugs and vaccines is usually long and...

Covid-19 ventilators developed using animal models

Ana Barros

Apr 14, 2020
1 min

Covid-19 ventilators developed using animal models

A group of volunteer engineers and doctors, in Spain, have successfully tested a prototype 3D printed ventilator on a pig. The research,...

Pigs used to test new COVID-19 vaccines before humans trials

Ana Barros

Apr 6, 2020
1 min

Pigs used to test new COVID-19 vaccines before humans trials

A team from the Pirbright Institute, UK, are to test new vaccines for COVID-19 using pigs as an animal model. The vaccines, developed at...

Machine keeps liver alive outside the body for longer

Ana Barros

Jan 20, 2020
1 min

Machine keeps liver alive outside the body for longer

Swiss researchers have developed a new machine that can maintain human livers for longer with the aim of allowing more patients to get...

Marking 50 years of biomedical research with minipigs

mburberry8

Apr 30, 2019
2 min

Marking 50 years of biomedical research with minipigs

EARA member Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs has marked 50 years of the company at its Scientific Symposium, in London, UK, which also looked...

Ethics in the spotlight after pig brain revival

Bob Tolliday

Apr 29, 2019
1 min

Ethics in the spotlight after pig brain revival

A debate has been stirred by news that neuroscientists have stimulated activity in the brain of pigs hours after their heads were...

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...

Bob Tolliday

Aug 11, 2015
4 min

A Researcher’s Perspective

This post is a translation of a Dutch blog that was originally published on the Faces of Science website on March 12, 2015. Marieke...