Lizards & skin cancer
A rare breed of gecko may hold answers about how skin cancer in humans and mammals. The lemon-frost yellow leopard gecko was observed by...
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Bob Tolliday
- Jul 5, 2021
- 1 min
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...
Ana Barros
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
Get ready for Get on #BOARD21
On Thursday, a 24-hour social media campaign, involving 1,000 biomedical institutions across the world, will celebrate proactive...
Bob Tolliday
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
Updated diet for lab rodents
Concerns about the diet of mice and rats and the effect this has on research results, has led to sweeping new recommendations by US...
Bob Tolliday
- Jun 28, 2021
- 1 min
mRNA malaria vaccine
Scientists have developed an effective vaccine against malaria, using the mRNA technology first seen in the successful Covid-19 vaccines....
Bob Tolliday
- Jun 21, 2021
- 1 min
Primates in Covid-19 video
A behind-the-scenes video, at a facility in Louisiana, USA, has highlighted the importance of studies using monkeys in the fight against...
Bob Tolliday
- Jun 21, 2021
- 1 min
Missing mice in media coverage
Sloppy journalism is leading to a lack of transparency on the reporting of the use of animal models in Alzheimer’s research. A study by...
Ana Barros
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Pollution & dementia
Scientists from the University of California, Davis, USA, have found a link between air pollution and a higher risk of developing...
Ana Barros
- Jun 14, 2021
- 1 min
Antibody drug & Covid-19
The EU has purchased 55,000 doses of a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, which significantly reduces the hospitalisation of...
Ana Barros
- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
Preventing hearing loss in mice
Exposing ears to near infrared light (NIR) could be a way to prevent noise-induced hearing loss, according to studies by German and US...
Bob Tolliday
- May 10, 2021
- 1 min
Humanised pigs
A team of researchers at Iowa State University, USA are creating pigs with human immune cells, to improve study of some medical...
Ana Barros
- Apr 26, 2021
- 1 min
Human-monkey cell research
An important ethical discussion has begun following the US-China scientific collaboration that has grown human cells in a monkey embryo...
Bob Tolliday
- Apr 19, 2021
- 1 min
EARA YouTube sci comm series launched
EARA has launched a new video initiative #LetsTalkSciComm, to give tips on how to engage in science communication and approach animal...
Ana Barros
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Virtual BRAD
Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) takes place this week on Thursday (15 April). Organised by Americans for Medical Progress (AMP),...
Ana Barros
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Heart research & lambs
Using lambs, scientists from the University of Minnesota, USA, have created a new type of artificial heart valve for young patients that...
Ana Barros
- Apr 5, 2021
- 1 min
Alzheimer’s studies animal models
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Berlin, have created a gene therapy using mice which could help to treat...
Bob Tolliday
- Mar 29, 2021
- 1 min
Personalised brain grafts
A team from University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, has successfully reduced symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in monkeys by implanting cells...
Ana Barros
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Gene therapy for chronic pain
Researchers at the University of California San Diego, USA, have created a gene therapy for chronic pain without apparent side effects....
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Mar 1, 2021
- 1 min
NHP shortage
The New York Times has highlighted the growing fears of the US biomedical community as China's export ban on monkeys, vital for research...