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Award for cancer neuroscience using mice
The 2025 Brain Prize has gone to two researchers who used mice in their ‘revolutionary’ research linking the brain and cancer. Frank...
Gege Li
Mar 10, 20251 min read
Microrobots remove blood clots in sheep
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed wireless magnetic microrobots that can remove blood clots from hard-to-reach arteries in...
Inês Serrenho
Mar 3, 20251 min read
Cancer risk determined before birth? – Mice study
An individual’s lifetime risk of cancer may be established before they are born, a study in mice has suggested. Researchers, led by EARA...
Gege Li
Mar 3, 20251 min read
Breaking down mercury pollutants using fruit flies and zebrafish
Researchers in Australia have genetically engineered fruit flies and zebrafish to break down a highly toxic form of mercury and turn it...
Gege Li
Mar 3, 20251 min read
Innovative treatment for eye disease – rat study
Canadian researchers have developed a more effective and longer-lasting treatment for glaucoma eye disease, in a study with rats. ...
Inês Serrenho
Feb 24, 20251 min read
Insights on human and animal brain cell evolution using AI
Researchers in Belgium have used AI, trained on human and animal data, to shed light on how different brain cells have evolved over time...
Gege Li
Feb 24, 20251 min read
#BOARD25 – registration extended
The deadline for registration for Be Open about Animal Research Day (#BOARD25) has been extended to 7 March . Scan the QR code above to...
Inês Serrenho
Feb 24, 20251 min read
Bat organoids to study infectious diseases
Organoids derived from bats have been used to understand bat-borne viruses and diseases, in a study from Japan. Bats can carry viruses...
Gege Li
Feb 24, 20251 min read
Genetically altered mice shed light on skin cancer
Researchers at EARA member the Champalimaud Foundation , in Portugal, have gained significant insights about the most common type of skin...
Gege Li
Feb 17, 20251 min read
40 reasons why animals are needed – updated EARA page
EARA has updated its popular website information page 40 reasons why animals are needed for biomedical research , which presents...
Gege Li
Feb 17, 20251 min read
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