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Tricking the body to lose weight - mice study
The effectiveness of current medications for weight loss and diabetes could be improved by โtrickingโ the bodyโs metabolism, a study in...
Gege Li
Mar 171 min read

Father's diet linked to metabolic disease
Recent research in mice has found a link between a father's diet and the health of offspring, revealing new ways to approach the...
Gege Li
Jun 17, 20241 min read

Sex differences & autoimmune disease
French researchers think that changes to the X chromosome in female mice could explain why women are more likely than men to be affected...
Gege Li
May 24, 20241 min read

Drug-resistant bacteria & moth larvae
A treatment that can make antibiotics work again, against drug-resistant bacteria, holds promise to combat the pressing global threat of...
Gege Li
Mar 18, 20241 min read

Bladder cancer insights from cats & dogs
Studies on pet cats and dogs, with natural bladder cancer, have revealed important gene mutations, shared with humans which may lead to...
Gege Li
Sep 11, 20231 min read

Studies for Huntingtonโs & depression
Researchers at EARA member the University of Helsinki, Finland, have used studies in mice to gain insights into brain disease and...
Gege Li
Jun 19, 20231 min read

Understanding diabetes using mice
Scientists who have observed how a specific gene works in mice, believe their findings could help develop new types of diabetes...
Gege Li
Nov 7, 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...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read

EARA YouTube release & Pint of Science
To mark this weekโs global science communication festival, Pint of Science, EARAโs latest #LetsTalkSciComm video on YouTube has an...
Ana Barros
May 17, 20211 min read


Feature: Biomedical breakthroughs in 2020 - how research with animals contributed
While Covid-19 research has dominated the headlines, day-to-day research into many other conditions to improve our understanding of the...
Ana Barros
Apr 23, 20215 min read

Non-animal vaccine testing
A new safety method developed by EARA member University of Turku, Finland, could help reduce the numbers of animals used in vaccine...
Bob Tolliday
Dec 21, 20201 min read

Hair loss in mice
A study led by scientists from the EARA members the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing,...
Ana Barros
Oct 19, 20201 min read

Dogs & Covid-19
Researchers at EARA member the University of Helsinki, Finland, have successfully trained dogs to detect Covid-19 in human samples using...
Ana Barros
Jul 13, 20201 min read


Covid-19 virus reveals the need for animal testing
This article is reprinted from Yleisradio Oy, Finland's national public broadcasting company, featuring an interview with Emrah Yatkin,...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 4, 20203 min read

EARA is looking for Twitter Ambassadors
The European Animal Research Association is looking for Twitter ambassadors in the following countries โ Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia,...
Ana Barros
Sep 18, 20191 min read


Finnish scientists' insights into Alzheimer's in rats
Researchers from the University of Helsinki have found a mechanism that could contribute to Alzheimer's disease by harming the neurons...
Ana Barros
Nov 21, 20181 min read
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