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Nuno Gonรงalves
Oct 18, 20242 min read
Preventing misconceptions on animal research โ EARA Madrid event
The latest EARA openness event, in Madrid, hosted by EARA member the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologรญa (CNB), last week.
Nuno Gonรงalves
Oct 14, 20241 min read
Insights into malnutrition using animal studies
Research from the US and Bangladesh, has highlighted that foods which boost gut health could be more beneficial than standard treatments...
Gege Li
Oct 14, 20242 min read
Central role of roundworms in Nobel Prize research
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ย has gone to two researchers who used roundworms in their discovery of microRNAs, which...
Gege Li
Oct 14, 20241 min read
Heart rate insights by studying shrews
Researchers have studied the unusually high heart rates of shrews , one of the worldโs smallest mammals, which could potentially help...
Gege Li
Oct 7, 20241 min read
Map of fruit fly brain gives major insights
The first map of the entire brain of a fruit fly has been published, promising to provide unprecedented knowledge into how the brain...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Oct 7, 20241 min read
Animal studies used in cure for diabetes
Research inย China, using previous studies in animals, has cured a woman with type 1 diabetes by using stem cells. Type 1 diabetes occurs...
Georgios Petrellis
Oct 7, 20241 min read
Game-changer schizophrenia drug
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a revolutionary new treatment for schizophrenia โ the first in 30 years. Schizophrenia...
The European Animal Research Association
Sep 30, 20241 min read
EARA Conference 2025 โ save the date
We are delighted to announce theย first-ever European Animal Research Association (EARA) Conference , celebrating our 10th anniversary...
Gege Li
Sep 30, 20241 min read
Top US research prize recognises studies with animals
The 2024 Lasker Awards, recognising fundamental discoveries and clinical advances in human health, have gone to US researchers who used...
Gege Li
Sep 30, 20241 min read
Rodent study to treat cataracts
US researchers have used ground squirrels and rats to identify a protein that can reverse cataracts in the eye, which may lead to...
Gege Li
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Treating spine injuries with animal โslimeโ
Scientists have developed a synthetic gel, inspired by the protective โslimeโ barrier found in many animals, which could help recovery...
Gege Li
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Monoclonal antibodies tackle major health threats
Studies from the UK and US have shown how antibodies are being used against some of the worldโs most challenging health problems โ ...
Nuno Gonรงalves
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Understanding what makes us sneeze and cough
US research, using mice, has examined which neurons in our airways trigger different sneezing and coughing reflexes. Sneezing and...
Gege Li
Sep 16, 20242 min read
Mpox vaccine tests show promise in monkeys
A new vaccine, under development for mpox, could give better protection ย against the virus than existing vaccines, a study in monkeys has...
Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Nanoparticle heart stimulation in animal studies
Researchers in Sweden have tested a technique, that successfully stimulated the heart in different species of animals, and could offer an...
Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Studying how limbs develop โ EARA Q&A video
Moisรฉs Mallo, a principal investigator at EARA member the Gulbenkian Instituteย of Science (IGC), Portugal,ย features in the latest episode...
Gege Li
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Research on tadpoles to help intensive care patients
Using a drug approved for Alzheimerโs, US researchers have put tadpoles into a hibernation-like state and may have found a way to help...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 9, 20241 min read
Concerns at unregulated use of antibiotics in research
A study has found that widespread and excessive use of antibiotics, unregulated access to critical drugs, as well as disposal practices...
Gege Li
Sep 2, 20241 min read
New Alzheimerโs drug
A first-of-its-kind Alzheimerโs drug that slows cognitive decline in early-stage patients, that wasย developed using animal research, has...
Gege Li
Sep 2, 20241 min read
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....
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