Student workshop on animal research
EARA has taken part in the first workshop, held by Europe's leading universities, to show students how best to communicate about animal...
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News from EARA
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Maria Vlastara
Sep 29, 20221 min read
Air pollution cancer clues
UK scientists believe, after experiments in both humans and animals, that air pollution can cause cancer by ‘waking up’ old damaged...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 29, 20221 min read
NASA studies fruit flies in space
NASA has been using fruit flies to examine how the health of astronauts might be affected by flights to Mars and beyond. Studies on the...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 27, 20221 min read
The long-term effects of antibiotics on babies
Studies in mice have revealed that antibiotics prescribed for babies can have a serious effect on their gut function in adult life....
Bob Tolliday
Sep 19, 20221 min read
Animal data and Omicron booster vaccines
The first booster vaccines, targeting the Omicron variant of Covid-19, have been authorised by regulators across the world solely using...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 19, 20221 min read
Child heart transplant breakthrough
A partial heart transplant, previously only performed in pigs, has been successfully conducted in the US on a child. Five-month-old Owen...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 19, 20221 min read
Improved technique to study the bladder using mice
Researchers have developed an improved technique to observe bladder function in mice without the need for anaesthesia. The team from EARA...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Toxicity testing without using fish
Swiss and Dutch scientists are working on a four-year project to replace the use of fish in toxicity testing. The project has received...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 12, 20221 min read
An insulin pill to treat diabetes?
Researchers in Canada have successfully tested in mice.a way to treat diabetes with a pill. Now there is hope that patients with diabetes...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 12, 20221 min read
New drug hope for Chagas disease
Scientists have found a possible new drug to treat Chagas disease, after successful trials in both mice and monkeys. Chagas disease is...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read
Breakthroughs in synthetic mouse embryos
Scientists have created mouse embryos from stem cells, that have developed a brain and a heart, without using either eggs or sperm. The...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read
New treatment for rare brain disease
A study, on mice and patient brain tissues, sheds light on a rare disease and suggests a treatment based on routinely used blood-thinning...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 29, 20221 min read
Insights into how a rare disease develops
Using studies in mice and patients, researchers have discovered what triggers a rare, severe autoimmune disease. ANCA-associated...
Georgios Petrellis
Aug 22, 20221 min read
Single dose microparticles polio vaccine success in rats
Researchers in the US have developed a type of microparticle, that can deliver and release vaccines at set times, to create a single dose...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 22, 20221 min read
Non-invasive monitoring of vital functions in rats
A new type of jacket, which can be worn by animals to check their bodily functions during biomedical research, has been developed. A team...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 15, 20221 min read
Eye stimulation to treat depression
A treatment for depression, using eye stimulation has been successful in mice. The researchers caused stimulation of the corneal surface...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 15, 20221 min read
Oxygen levels in fish & global warming
A study which aims to predict which species of fish are most at risk from global warming and pollution has been conducted by researchers....
Bob Tolliday
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Animal sentience in insects and worms?
An article in Undark magazine has asked whether invertebrate animals, such as fruit flies, bees or nematode worms, experience pain and...
Maria Vlastara
Aug 8, 20221 min read
Making vaccines more effective
UK scientists have discovered a way to boost the effectiveness of vaccines for chronic viral infections and cancers, using mice. When a...
Maria Vlastara
Jul 31, 20221 min read
Pig organ transplants in US clinical trials
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is planning to allow clinical trials testing of the transplantation of pig organs into humans....
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