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This page contains all the news outputs from EARA, including press releases and videos, EARA policy and news briefings, plus opinion pieces and significant media articles.
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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 Huntington’s disease, a...
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 1, 20211 min read
Understanding sepsis
Research from the EARA member Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (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
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 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
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
Dec 22, 20205 min read
Feature: Making vaccines safe - animal testing plays a vital part
While basic research using animals gave scientists a greater understanding of the Covid-19 virus, such as its structure and genetic...
Ana Barros
Dec 7, 20201 min read
Age-related disease therapy
Spanish scientists have created a spin-off company to develop the first treatment for lung fibrosis based on gene therapy. Pulmonary...
Ana Barros
Nov 30, 20201 min read
Animal research & autism
Scientists in the US are using mice and zebrafish to help understand some of the symptoms experienced by people with autism, caused by a...
Ana Barros
Nov 23, 20201 min read
Heart research & animal models
The UK British Heart Foundation (BHF) charity has published a round-up of its current funded research to treat heart disease, including...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 18, 20204 min read
EARA/EFPIA response to antibody recommendation
A joint report by the European Animal Research Association (EARA) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 16, 20201 min read
New immunotherapy drug
Researchers at University College London, UK, have found a new antibody cancer drug that has significantly improved the life expectancy...
Ana Barros
Nov 9, 20201 min read
Brain control without surgery
Scientists from Stanford University, USA, have been able to switch cells ‘on and off’ within the brain of a living animal. Using...
Ana Barros
Nov 9, 20201 min read
Regrowing bones using animals
Researchers at the Columbia University in New York have found a way to use stem cells from pig fat to grow replacement jaw bones and...
Ana Barros
Nov 2, 20201 min read
Preventing spread of cancer
German researchers have created a new mouse model to study the spread of cancer. The aim of the GM model was to understand the role of...
Ana Barros
Nov 2, 20201 min read
Covid-19 mouse model
EARA member Taconic Biosciences have launched a mouse model which could play an important role in the fight against Covid-19. The mouse...
Ana Barros
Oct 26, 20201 min read
Cold shock protein & dementia
Researchers in the UK have discovered that a ‘cold shock’ protein found in cold water swimmers may prevent brain diseases, such as...
Bob Tolliday
Oct 19, 20201 min read
New way to target brain tumours
Researchers, including EARA member the University of Zurich, have found a potential new treatment for aggressive brain tumours, using...
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