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Reducing animal use in lung cancer research

Gege Li

Oct 30, 20231 min read

Reducing animal use in lung cancer research

Researchers in Norway have found a way to improve a non-animal method to study lung cancer, which reduces the numbers of animals needed...

Swiss university prizes for non-animal methods

Gege Li

Oct 23, 20231 min read

Swiss university prizes for non-animal methods

The UZH 3Rs Award, newly introduced by EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which highlights its researcher's advances in...

Gege Li

Oct 23, 20231 min read

Bone disease treatment works in mice

Chinese researchers have discovered that a drug currently used to treat malaria can also reverse bone loss in mice that have a serious...

Nobel for Covid vaccines research using animals

Gege Li

Oct 9, 20231 min read

Nobel for Covid vaccines research using animals

This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to two researchers whose pioneering work relied on mice to develop messenger RNA (mRNA)...

Nuno Gonçalves

Oct 9, 20231 min read

Dirt exposure – mice study

Researchers in Sweden are challenging the popular theory, which suggests that greater exposure to bacteria at a young age means less...

Dutch institute hails use of animals in cancer research

Gege Li

Oct 9, 20231 min read

Dutch institute hails use of animals in cancer research

EARA member the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) has celebrated the 10th anniversary of its animal facility with a symposium...

Meeting the public at Researchers' Night

Bob Tolliday

Oct 9, 20231 min read

Meeting the public at Researchers' Night

This year’s European Researchers’ Night provided a great opportunity to talk directly to the public about the use of animals in...

Research reduces animal use in gene editing

Gege Li

Oct 2, 20231 min read

Research reduces animal use in gene editing

An innovative gene editing process can reduce the number of animal experiments needed to study complex genetic diseases, according to...

Gege Li

Oct 2, 20231 min read

Insights into kidney injury using mice

Danish researchers have found that kidney damage after injury can spread to unaffected areas in mice, providing new insights to improve...

Nuno Gonçalves

Oct 2, 20231 min read

Animal studies into regrowing teeth

Japanese scientists are making progress in tooth regeneration, with successful results in mice, ferrets and dogs. It is hoped the...

Discovering how neurons die in Alzheimer’s

Gege Li

Sep 25, 20231 min read

Discovering how neurons die in Alzheimer’s

The cause of brain neuron death in Alzheimer’s disease – a key hallmark of the condition – has finally been identified, according to a...

Gege Li

Sep 25, 20231 min read

Awards recognise research using animals

This year’s prestigious Lasker Awards include scientists who have used animals as part of their research into cancer and eye diseases....

'Inverse vaccine' for autoimmune diseases

Nuno Gonçalves

Sep 25, 20231 min read

'Inverse vaccine' for autoimmune diseases

US researchers have used mice to develop an ‘inverse vaccine’ with the potential to combat autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis....

Clues in the skull to treat brain diseases

Gege Li

Sep 18, 20231 min read

Clues in the skull to treat brain diseases

Immune cells in the bone marrow of the skull could provide new ways to diagnose and treat neurological diseases, recent research in mice...

Nuno Gonçalves

Sep 18, 20231 min read

Gut bacteria insights into colon cancer

Canadian researchers have uncovered promising results in the battle against colon cancer, in research using mice. The study, at the...

Nuno Gonçalves

Sep 11, 20231 min read

Brain cell discovery in mice

A new way of communicating between different types of brain cells has been identified in mice. The discovery, by researchers at the...

Gege Li

Sep 4, 20231 min read

Supplements treat hearing loss in mice

South American scientists have identified that a lack of cholesterol is linked to hearing loss in mice, and have found an effective...

Gege Li

Sep 4, 20231 min read

Progress with animal monitoring tech

A new type of telemetry jacket, used to monitor the bodily functions of laboratory rats, is now being tested and validated for use with...

Gege Li

Aug 29, 20231 min read

Treating diabetes with music

Cells engineered to release insulin at the sound of rock music may become a new treatment for diabetes, a study in mice has found....

Gege Li

Aug 29, 20231 min read

Shedding light on dementia using mice

Researchers have found how high blood pressure changes the brain’s arteries, paving the way to develop a possible first treatment for one...

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