Feature: How animal studies contributed to biomedical breakthroughs in 2022
Ahead of this year’s Be Open About Animal Research Day (#BOARD23), on 15 June, which highlights how the biomedical research community...
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News from EARA
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Gege Li
- Mar 13
- 1 min
‘Bioelectronics’ & brain disease
Swedish researchers have grown electrodes in the tissue of zebrafish and leeches, which could lead to mimicking technologies that can...
Maria Vlastara
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
New treatment for rare brain disease
A study, on mice and patient brain tissues, sheds light on a rare disease and suggests a treatment based on routinely used blood-thinning...
Bob Tolliday
- Jul 19, 2022
- 3 min
European biomedical sector welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics for 2019, from across the...
Maria Vlastara
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Salamander heart study
While the human heart has a very limited capacity to regenerate itself, amphibians, such as salamanders, can easily regenerate their...
Ana Barros
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
3D bioprinting & alternatives
Two European projects are seeking to reduce the use of animals in research by using 3D bioprinting. The BRIGHTER project aims to overcome...
Ana Barros
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min
Replacing mice to study brain cancer
Scientists at Uppsala University, Sweden, have created a new way to study brain cancer tumours and partly replace the use of mice models...
Ana Barros
- Dec 13, 2021
- 1 min
Leukaemia treatment
Researchers in Sweden and Norway have developed a new therapy for blood cancer. The approach has the potential to spare healthy T and B...
Ana Barros
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
3Rs online webinars
A series of four free events hosted by a pan-European group of 3Rs centres, will take place online from this Thursday until December....
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
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min
Brain Prize 2021
The largest annual prize for neuroscience has been awarded to four scientists for their research on migraine studies, using animal...
Ana Barros
- Jan 25, 2021
- 1 min
Eye disease in rats
Research in rats, published during Glaucoma Awareness Month, suggests potential treatments for the eye condition. Scientists at...
Ana Barros
- Dec 7, 2020
- 1 min
Parkinson’s dyskinesia drug
A new drug, which combats a side effect of a common Parkinson’s disease treatment, is entering clinical trials after successful studies...
Bob Tolliday
- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
EARA/EFPIA response to antibody recommendation
A joint report by the European Animal Research Association (EARA) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and...
Bob Tolliday
- Sep 7, 2020
- 5 min
Feature: The vital role of antibodies in biomedical research
Antibodies, the small proteins which form a critical part of our immune response to disease, are the unsung heroes of much biomedical...
Ana Barros
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Animal antibodies for Covid-19
A wide variety of animals are now being used to produce and understand the antibodies that can fight against Covid-19. Human bodies fight...
Ana Barros
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
Sweden & France events
A free webinar, focusing on the activities of EARA, and hosted by the European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV) and the...
Bob Tolliday
- Jan 8, 2019
- 2 min
Challenging misleading information about malaria research
Peta have today started promoting a petition to end malaria research using monkeys at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The petition...
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