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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.

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Gege Li

Oct 17, 2022
1 min

Enzyme therapy for fatal brain disorder

Research in animals has provided key clues for treating infantile Batten disease (CLN1 disease), an incurable brain disorder that can...

Ana Barros

Nov 22, 2021
1 min

Climate change & animal research

Marking the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK, have has highlighted some ways that animal research...

Ana Barros

Sep 13, 2021
1 min

Womb transplants

A feature article in The Scientist has revealed how, in just a decade, research using animals made possible the first human-to-human...

Ana Barros

Oct 5, 2020
1 min

Cartilage repair models

UK scientists have created a new way to regrow knee cartilage and improve joint pain in animals with osteoarthritis. In studies, using...

Ana Barros

May 26, 2020
1 min

Animal studies and Covid-19 origins

Animal experiments, cell studies and computational models are being used by researchers around the world to find the origins of the...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

‘Bionic spine’ tested in sheep

Scientists in Australia have developed a ‘bionic spine’. This device has successfully been tested in sheep and will be implanted in three...

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...