Toxicity testing without using animals
An article by leading scientists argues that any transition to non-animal methods in toxicology testing will need ‘a new paradigm for...
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Ana Barros
- Apr 18, 2022
- 1 min
New strategy to prevent clogged arteries
Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA, has found a new way to prevent clogged arteries. Atherosclerosis – a condition...
Ana Barros
- Apr 11, 2022
- 1 min
Lung diseases in mice
An international team of scientists has developed a potential treatment for two life-threatening lung conditions. Researchers at the...
Ana Barros
- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min
Muscle strength & animal models
Studies using mice and zebrafish, in Germany and the US, are giving insights into muscle strength and wastage in the study of muscular...
Ana Barros
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
Treatment to eliminate cancer tumours
A treatment produced by US researchers can eliminate late-stage cancer tumours in mice in as little as six days. The treatment is...
Ana Barros
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Brain Prize winners
The 2022 Brain Prize has been awarded to an international group of researchers for their pioneering work on how the nervous system...
Ana Barros
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
First heart & thymus transplant
A baby has received a combined heart and thymus transplant in pioneering surgery at Duke University Hospital, North Carolina, USA. Easton...
Ana Barros
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
Virtual events in March
An event on Culture of Care and Responsible Research is taking place virtualy this week. Hosted by the University Hospital Jena, Germany,...
Bob Tolliday
- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
Neuralink response
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has said that claims that monkeys were mistreated during research are ‘misleading’. Neuralink, and the California...
Ana Barros
- Feb 14, 2022
- 1 min
Controlling brain activity
US scientists have been able to activate cells in the brain using sound waves, in a move that could benefit treatment of conditions such...
Ana Barros
- Feb 7, 2022
- 1 min
Robot surgeon operates pigs
In a breakthrough for medical surgery, a robot has successfully performed keyhole surgery on pigs without the hand of a human surgeon. At...
Ana Barros
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
EARA global membership
EARA has welcomed three new organisations this month to its membership and also begun a new phase in its progress. EARA is now accepting...
Ana Barros
- Jan 31, 2022
- 1 min
Regrowing frog limbs
US scientists have regrown the legs of frogs after a brief drug treatment, marking a significant advance for regenerative medicine. The...
Ana Barros
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
Cystic fibrosis & mice studies
A team at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, California, US, has found a new way to improve survival of mice with cystic fibrosis (CF), a...
Ana Barros
- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
Pig-to-human heart transplants
News about the first pig-to-human heart transplant has made headlines across the world, including discussion about the ethics of such a...
Ana Barros
- Jan 10, 2022
- 1 min
Nanoparticles to deliver drugs
A new tool, developed by US researchers, could help to measure how effectively nanoparticles can deliver drugs to a patient’s cells....
Ana Barros
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Nasal Covid-19 vaccines
Scientists from the Yale School of Medicine, USA, have found that nasal vaccines could potentially provide better protection against new...
Ana Barros
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
Researchers on Instagram in 2021
This year on EARA Intagram, we saw more scientists than ever, coming forward publicly to answer questions about their research using...
Ana Barros
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
Treating heart failure
Researchers in Germany have found a way to improve the treatment of heart failure, using a combination of animal studies and new approach...
Ana Barros
- Dec 21, 2021
- 1 min
Reproducibility issue in cancer biology
An eight-year study by researchers in the US has found that fewer than half of the most influential cancer biology experiments of the...
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