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Gege Li

Aug 192 min read

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...

Does gum disease speed up pancreatic cancer?

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...

Could an animal studies dataset help reduce their use?

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...

Neuroscience awards honour numerous animal researchers

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...

Breakthroughs in synthetic mouse embryos

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...

‘Human body’ on a chip to help drug development

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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