Using parasites to treat disease
By modifying different parasites, researchers have found separate ways to deliver drugs to the brain and develop a more effective vaccine...
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Gege Li
Mar 281 min read
Does gum disease speed up pancreatic cancer?
Gum disease may accelerate the development of pancreatic cancer, a new study in mice has shown, suggesting a direct link between oral...
Gege Li
Mar 181 min read
Could an animal studies dataset help reduce their use?
After sifting through vast numbers of research studies that used animals, scientists believe they have a basic set of data that could...
Gege Li
Nov 6, 20231 min read
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
May 29, 20231 min read
Treating inflammatory disease
A newly discovered protein structure involved in the immune response in mice may hold clues to preventing inflammatory diseases, a recent...
Gege Li
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Upcoming 'worm robots' EU project
An upcoming EU project aims to develop biological robots from roundworms, that will be engineered to for tasks including performing...
Gege Li
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Insights from bat brain cells
A special group of neurons, identified in the brains of bats, appear to help the animals to distinguish both time and space, in relation...
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...
Ana Barros
Mar 7, 20221 min read
3D bioprinting & alternatives
Two European projects are seeking to reduce the use of animals in research by using 3D bioprinting. The BRIGHTER project aims to overcome...
Bob Tolliday
Apr 15, 20213 min read
EARA joins debate at Israel event
In the latest in the series of openness events across Europe, EARA held a discussion with institutions in Israel about the importance of...
Ana Barros
Apr 5, 20211 min read
EARA event in Israel
In April, EARA will hold a free online science communication event in collaboration with the Inter-University Forum for Biomedical...
Ana Barros
Mar 22, 20211 min read
Mouse embryos
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, have grown mouse embryos in bottles, offering a unique way to observe how a...
Ana Barros
Mar 8, 20211 min read
EARA growth
The European Animal Research Association (EARA), founded just seven years ago, has recently become the biggest advocacy organisation on...
Ana Barros
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Avoiding side effects of cancer drugs
Scientists from EARA member the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), Israel, have found a way to prevent kidney damage during the use of...
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
Jul 27, 20201 min read
Heart regeneration & zebrafish
Israeli scientists have gone a step further in understanding how zebrafish can heal their own hearts. The team at the Weizmann Institute...
Ana Barros
Jun 29, 20201 min read
Israeli media intervention
Criticism of inaccurate reporting on research using animals, in an Israeli online publication, has seen the article corrected and more...
Ana Barros
May 26, 20204 min read
Covid-19 research using monkeys
In the research to combat Covid-19, one of the most important, and in demand, animals to use as models for understanding the virus, and...
Ana Barros
Feb 17, 20201 min read
‘Human body’ on a chip to help drug development
Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Harvard University, USA, have created organs-on-a chip that may be a better predictor of...
Ana Barros
Jun 18, 20181 min read
Pancreatic cell size in negative relationship with mammal lifespans
A recent study indicates that species with larger pancreatic cells tend to have shorter lives. Yuval Dor, a developmental biologist at...
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