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Ana Barros
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Dogs & ageing
Researchers in Hungary are studying pet dogs to help understand the ageing process in humans. Living with people means that dogs have...
Ana Barros
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Covid-19 myths
UK animal research advocacy group Understanding Animal Research (UAR) has published an article dispelling the falsehoods being spread...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Fears rise on China research monkey export ban - UnHerd magazine
An article highlighting the implications of the increasing shortages of monkeys for European and US biomedical research, has been...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Huntington's disease research
Researchers at the University of Barcelona, Spain, have found mutations in a protein that can be linked to Huntingtonโs disease, a...
Ana Barros
Feb 8, 20211 min read
The origin of language and memory
Researchers from the Newcastle University, UK, have found a link between the development of communication and memory in human and primate...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Targeting cancer cells
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, have identified how a unique property of cancer cells could provide a new method of killing...
Ana Barros
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Imaging zebrafish for ALS research
Scientists at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, Canada, have created an imaging tool to visualise the motor...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 1, 20211 min read
US poll on animal research
Three recent public opinion polls held by the Foundation of Biomedical Research (FBR), US, show that acceptance of animal research in the...
Ana Barros
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Understanding sepsis
Research from the EARA member Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciรชncia (IGC), Portugal, has found new evidence to understand and fight sepsis - a...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Reversing paralysis in mice
Scientists at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have made paralysed mice walk again by stimulating healing in the spinal cord (video)....
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Ben Stiller & free event on MND
An online US event looking at the path to a new treatment for ALS (or MND), based on a patient story, takes place next week. Hosted by...
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
MND breakthrough
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh, UK, have discovered a way in which neurons can be repaired, so as to stop muscle wastage in...
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Eye disease in rats
Research in rats, published during Glaucoma Awareness Month, suggests potential treatments for the eye condition. Scientists at...
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Animal studies & blindness
US scientists have found a potential treatment for blindness in patients with retinal disorders, that affect around 200 million people...
Ana Barros
Jan 18, 20211 min read
EU animal alternatives event
The European Commission will provide an update on its work to replace animals in science at a free conference next month. The virtual...
Ana Barros
Jan 18, 20211 min read
Fighting blood cancer
A collaboration between EARA member institutions in Germany, has created a new approach to fight blood cancer. Using two mouse models,...
Ana Barros
Jan 18, 20211 min read
Covid-19 vaccine and MS
BioNTech, the German company involved in production of the first approved Covid-19 vaccine, is now applying its vaccine technology in...
Ana Barros
Jan 18, 20211 min read
US rodent numbers row
A paper estimating the numbers of mice and rats used annually in US research has been strongly challenged within the biomedical research...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Inhaled vaccines
Scientists at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA, have identified a new way to deliver a vaccine by aerosol rather than...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Monkeys for Covid-19 research
US researchers have confirmed the importance of using rhesus macaque monkeys as models in Covid-19 research, in a recent study. The...
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