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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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...
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
Gege Li
Jun 102 min read
How gut bacteria affect health, using mice
Two US studies have used mice to shed light on the remarkable effects of gut bacteria, both on improving cancer treatment and in the...
Nuno Gonçalves
Jun 31 min read
‘Bubbles’ in cells can help cancer treatment
Research from Sweden has used ‘bubbles’, that are released by cells as messengers, to develop a potentially more effective way to target...
Gege Li
Jun 31 min read
Treating bone cancer with immunotherapy
A new type of immunotherapy, based on engineered immune cells, has successfully treated mice with bone cancer, raising the possibility...
Gege Li
Jun 32 min read
Progress in treating diabetes
Animal studies from Australia and the US have developed new ways to manage and effectively treat type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an...
Gege Li
May 281 min read
HIV vaccine approach shows promise
A US strategy for developing a vaccine for HIV, based on training the immune system, is providing hope for an effective future treatment....
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