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Understanding resistanceย to Covid-19 in bats
US researchers have gained insights into how bats resist getting ill from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19. Bats can be...
Gege Li
Oct 28, 20241 min read
Insights on herpes infections, using mice
Two different studies, from the USA and Brazil, have used mice infected with herpes viruses to understand more about viral infections, as...
Gege Li
Oct 21, 20242 min read
Insights into malnutrition using animal studies
Research from the US and Bangladesh, has highlighted that foods which boost gut health could be more beneficial than standard treatments...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Oct 14, 20241 min read
Central role of roundworms in Nobel Prize research
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ย has gone to two researchers who used roundworms in their discovery of microRNAs, which...
Gege Li
Oct 14, 20242 min read
Map of fruit fly brain gives major insights
The first map of the entire brain of a fruit fly has been published, promising to provide unprecedented knowledge into how the brain...
Gege Li
Oct 7, 20241 min read
Game-changer schizophrenia drug
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a revolutionary new treatment for schizophrenia โ the first in 30 years. Schizophrenia...
Georgios Petrellis
Oct 7, 20241 min read
Top US research prize recognises studies with animals
The 2024 Lasker Awards, recognising fundamental discoveries and clinical advances in human health, have gone to US researchers who used...
Gege Li
Sep 30, 20241 min read
Rodent study to treat cataracts
US researchers have used ground squirrels and rats to identify a protein that can reverse cataracts in the eye, which may lead to...
Gege Li
Sep 30, 20241 min read
Monoclonal antibodies tackle major health threats
Studies from the UK and US have shown how antibodies are being used against some of the worldโs most challenging health problems โ ...
Gege Li
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Understanding what makes us sneeze and cough
US research, using mice, has examined which neurons in our airways trigger different sneezing and coughing reflexes. Sneezing and...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Research on tadpoles to help intensive care patients
Using a drug approved for Alzheimerโs, US researchers have put tadpoles into a hibernation-like state and may have found a way to help...
Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Healing wounds with roundworms
Proteins produced by parasitic roundworms could offer a better way to heal skin wounds without leaving scars, a new US study has found....
Gege Li
Sep 2, 20241 min read
Insights into treating long Covid
US studies, using animals, have uncovered new information about the long-term effects of Covid-19 and the health complications it can...
Gege Li
Aug 27, 20242 min read
Stress-free mice weighing with computer vision
Research from the US has developed a new non-invasive method to effectively weigh mice using computer vision, enhancing animal welfare in...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Aug 19, 20241 min read
Accelerating drug discovery in animals
Biotechnology companies are increasingly looking to large-scale animal studies, that can test multiple potential treatments at once, to...
Gege Li
Aug 19, 20241 min read
Sheep studies on new biomaterials
Using sheep, separate studies from France and the US have uncovered potential biomaterial treatments for heart disease and cartilage...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Aug 12, 20242 min read
Monkey study for treating Parkinsonโs
Researchers in the US have delivered human neurons, that are damaged in Parkinsonโs, into monkeys as a new approach for treating the...
Gege Li
Aug 5, 20241 min read
Animal study insights into bird flu
Following an outbreak of bird flu in cattle, researchers are trying understand the potential of the disease to cause infection in humans.
Bob Tolliday
Jul 23, 20241 min read
Tackling memory loss with mice studiesย
Two separate studies, both performed in mice, are bringing insights into ways to combat memory loss in humans.
Nuno Gonรงalves
Jul 23, 20241 min read
Pill hope to treat sickle cell disease
A drug to treat sickle cell disease has performed well in mice and monkeys, overcoming some of the limitations of current treatments.
Gege Li
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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