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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

New gene target for Huntington’s treatment?

Using 3D brain organoids, researchers have linked a gene with Huntington’s disease for the first time, which may provide a new target for...

Gege Li

Sep 2, 20241 min read

Treating bowel disease using caterpillars

A recent interview has highlighted the emerging value of caterpillars to the study of diseases of the intestines and how this...

Gege Li

Aug 27, 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

Expectant mother’s microbiome affects baby brain

UK research, using mice, has revealed that conditions in a mother’s gut during pregnancy influences brain development in her unborn baby....

Nuno Gonçalves

Aug 23, 20241 min read

Using parasites to treat disease

By modifying different parasites, researchers have found separate ways to deliver drugs to the brain and develop a more effective vaccine...

Gege Li

Aug 19, 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 Gonçalves

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

Understanding lung repair after respiratory infection

Researchers in Belgium have discovered a novel population of immune cells in the lungs that promote regeneration after injury caused...

Georgios Petrellis

Aug 12, 20241 min read

Reducing mice in cancer research using chicken eggs – video

The value of using chicken eggs to study cancer has been highlighted in a recent video , which holds the potential to reduce how many...

Gege Li

Aug 12, 20241 min read

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