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Understanding what makes us sneeze and cough

Nuno Gonçalves

Sep 231 min read

Understanding what makes us sneeze and cough

US research, using mice, has examined which neurons in our airways trigger different sneezing and coughing reflexes. Sneezing and...

Studying how limbs develop – EARA Q&A video

Gege Li

Sep 91 min read

Studying how limbs develop – EARA Q&A video

Moisés Mallo, a principal investigator at EARA member the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC), Portugal, features in the latest episode...

Gege Li

Sep 21 min read

New Alzheimer’s drug

A first-of-its-kind Alzheimer’s drug that slows cognitive decline in early-stage patients, that was developed using animal research, has...

Gege Li

Sep 21 min read

Healing wounds with roundworms

Proteins produced by parasitic roundworms could offer a better way to heal skin wounds without leaving scars, a new US study has found....

Expectant mother’s microbiome affects baby brain

Nuno Gonçalves

Aug 231 min read

Expectant mother’s microbiome affects baby brain

UK research, using mice, has revealed that conditions in a mother’s gut during pregnancy influences brain development in her unborn baby....

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...

Stress-free mice weighing with computer vision

Nuno Gonçalves

Aug 191 min read

Stress-free mice weighing with computer vision

Research from the US has developed a new non-invasive method to effectively weigh mice using computer vision, enhancing animal welfare in...

Understanding lung repair after respiratory infection

Georgios Petrellis

Aug 121 min read

Understanding lung repair after respiratory infection

Researchers in Belgium have discovered a novel population of immune cells in the lungs that promote regeneration after injury caused...

Mice study shows new mRNA vaccine safety

Nuno Gonçalves

Aug 51 min read

Mice study shows new mRNA vaccine safety

Research from the Netherlands, using mice, has revealed that a new type of mRNA vaccine is safe to use in the body, highlighting its...

Nuno Gonçalves

Jul 291 min read

Insights into gut inflammation

Researchers at EARA member the University of Antwerp, Belgium, together with international collaborators, have studied how a common...

Probiotic bread could help prevent asthma

Nuno Gonçalves

Jul 291 min read

Probiotic bread could help prevent asthma

Brazilian researchers, using mice, have found that bread with probiotic yeast could be an effective method to prevent asthma. The team at...

Nuno Gonçalves

Jul 231 min read

Tackling memory loss with mice studies

Two separate studies, both performed in mice, are bringing insights into ways to combat memory loss in humans.

Gege Li

Jul 151 min read

Pill hope to treat sickle cell disease

A drug to treat sickle cell disease has performed well in mice and monkeys, overcoming some of the limitations of current treatments.

Mice study offers new hope for skin disease

Nuno Gonçalves

Jul 11 min read

Mice study offers new hope for skin disease

Research from the UK using genetic therapy and mice studies has uncovered a potential treatment to reverse a rare skin disease....

Understanding ageing with blood stem cells

Gege Li

Jul 11 min read

Understanding ageing with blood stem cells

Stem cells, that develop into blood cells, age differently in individual mice, a US study has found, providing new insights into how this...

Rodent teeth insights for human dentistry?

Gege Li

Jun 241 min read

Rodent teeth insights for human dentistry?

Researchers in Germany have studied the tooth structure of seven different rodent species and found a material that is key to the...

Gege Li

Jun 241 min read

Explaining sex differences in pain

Males and females differ in their experience of pain due to differences in specialised nerve cells, a recent US study in mice, monkeys...

New antibiotic to tackle antimicrobial resistance?

Gege Li

Jun 171 min read

New antibiotic to tackle antimicrobial resistance?

US researchers have found a new antibiotic that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, in mice, without targeting healthy gut bacteria....

Father's diet linked to metabolic disease

Gege Li

Jun 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...

Nuno Gonçalves

Jun 101 min read

How prostate cancer spreads

A study from Denmark, using genetically altered (GA) mice has uncovered a crucial gene involved in the spread of prostate cancer to other...

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