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Neuroscience awards honour numerous animal researchers
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has announced the recipients of its 2023 Early Career Awards, with several researchers who use animals...
Gege Li
Nov 6, 20231 min read
Instituições biomédicas portuguesas mostram melhorias na abertura para com a investigação animal
Instituições biomédicas portuguesas mostram melhorias na abertura para com a investigação animal.
The European Animal Research Association
Nov 2, 20233 min read
Combating childhood kidney disease using mice
UK scientists have made progress in understanding a kidney disorder in children through a study using genetically altered mice. The...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Eurogroup breast cancer misinformation slammed
EARA has responded to false claims by an activist group that animal studies have ‘a lack of relevance’ in cancer research. On the recent...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Zika infection in mice and monkeys
Recent studies using animals, in the USA and Brazil, have shed light on the effect of Zika virus infection during pregnancy, which could...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Reducing animal use in lung cancer research
Researchers in Norway have found a way to improve a non-animal method to study lung cancer, which reduces the numbers of animals needed...
Gege Li
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Swiss university prizes for non-animal methods
The UZH 3Rs Award, newly introduced by EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which highlights its researcher's advances in...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Alzheimer’s transferred to rats via gut bacteria
Memory loss and other characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease can be transferred to healthy rats by giving them gut bacteria from...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Bone disease treatment works in mice
Chinese researchers have discovered that a drug currently used to treat malaria can also reverse bone loss in mice that have a serious...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Monkey survives two years with pig kidney transplant
US scientists have made a breakthrough in organ transplantation, with a macaque monkey surviving for more than two years after receiving...
Nuno Gonçalves
Oct 23, 20231 min read
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