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Air pollution cancer clues
UK scientists believe, after experiments in both humans and animals, that air pollution can cause cancer by โwaking upโ old damaged...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 29, 20221 min read
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Animal data and Omicron booster vaccines
The first booster vaccines, targeting the Omicron variant of Covid-19, have been authorised by regulators across the world solely using...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 19, 20221 min read
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Breakthroughs in synthetic mouse embryos
Scientists have created mouse embryos from stem cells, that have developed a brain and a heart, without using either eggs or sperm. The...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read
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Insights into how a rare disease develops
Using studies in mice and patients, researchers have discovered what triggers a rare, severe autoimmune disease. ANCA-associated...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 29, 20221 min read
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Animal sentience in insects and worms?
An article in Undark magazine has asked whether invertebrate animals, such as fruit flies, bees or nematode worms, experience pain and...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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Making vaccines more effective
UK scientists have discovered a way to boost the effectiveness of vaccines for chronic viral infections and cancers, using mice. When a...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 8, 20221 min read
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Organ-on-a-chip design prize
A prestigious international 3Rs prize has been awarded for an innovative way to produce organ-on-a-chip systems cheaply and faster. The...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 18, 20221 min read
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Zebrafish genetic atlas completed
The most comprehensive atlas of genetic data on zebrafish, has been published. The initiative, by the international DANIO-CODE...
Maria Vlastara
Jul 18, 20221 min read
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Tributes to Prof. Sir Colin Blakemore 1944 - 2022
EARA was saddened to hear of the recent death of the eminent UK neuroscientist, Sir Colin Blakemore. Sir Colin was a passionate supporter...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 11, 20221 min read
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Cancer drug aids heart attack recovery
A drug currently being used for cancer patients, can form new blood vessels after a heart attack, following research in mice and human...
Maria Vlastara
Jun 28, 20221 min read
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Shedding light on brain tumours
Scientists have tested in mice, a method to find the exact extent of a tumour during brain surgery. A collaboration between the...
Maria Vlastara
Jun 28, 20221 min read
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Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022: Partner organisations & statements
This year, Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022 (#BOARD22), took place on the last day of the FELASA Congress (16 June). More than 150...
Maria Vlastara
Jun 17, 20221 min read
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Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022: #TransparencyThursday
EARA #TransparencyThursday, which features regularly on our Instagram feed (and also on YouTube), is an initiative that gives the public...
Maria Vlastara
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022: Case studies and articles
Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022 (#BOARD22), took place on the last day of the FELASA Congress (16 June). Many institutions across...
Maria Vlastara
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022: Videos & live stream interviews
This year, Be Open About Animal Research Day 2022 (#BOARD22), took place on the last day of the FELASA congress (16 June), and to...
Maria Vlastara
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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Peptides plan to treat brain tumours
Using mice and cell models, scientists have revealed a new treatment for one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. Glioblastoma...
Maria Vlastara
May 16, 20221 min read
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The future of experimental models in biomedical research
A webinar will be held this week to discuss a UK public research body report into the current use of different models in biomedical...
Bob Tolliday
Apr 25, 20221 min read
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New strategy to prevent clogged arteries
Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA, has found a new way to prevent clogged arteries. Atherosclerosis โ a condition...
Ana Barros
Apr 18, 20221 min read
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Funding both sexes animal research
One of the UKโs major funding bodies is to make the use of both sexes a condition of any research animal studies it supports. Starting in...
Ana Barros
Apr 4, 20221 min read
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#LetsTalkSciComm
In the latest edition of EARAโs #LetsTalkSciComm series, Sam Shingles, Communities Officer from UK-based campaign group Sense about...
Ana Barros
Mar 7, 20221 min read
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