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Ana Barros

Jul 12, 20211 min read

Lizards & skin cancer

A rare breed of gecko may hold answers about how skin cancer in humans and mammals. The lemon-frost yellow leopard gecko was observed by...

Bob Tolliday

Jun 7, 20211 min read

Space research with animals

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, are using zebrafish to understand how humans might be able to safely reach...

Feature: Why do we need to use animals in neuroscience research?

Bob Tolliday

Jun 4, 20217 min read

Feature: Why do we need to use animals in neuroscience research?

Perhaps more than in any other field of biomedical research, it is essential to use animals to understand the functions of the brain,...

Bob Tolliday

May 31, 20211 min read

New cancer therapy

Scientists at EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland have developed a new technology which instructs cancer cells to start...

Ana Barros

Apr 19, 20211 min read

TB study in zebrafish

Scientists at the Leiden University, Netherlands, have found a new strategy to clear away tuberculosis bacteria in zebrafish. The team...

Ana Barros

Apr 12, 20211 min read

Zebrafish & rare disease

An international collaboration co-ordinated by Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, has developed a zebrafish model of a rare...

Ana Barros

Feb 8, 20211 min read

Imaging zebrafish for ALS research

Scientists at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec, Canada, have created an imaging tool to visualise the motor...

Bob Tolliday

Dec 21, 20201 min read

Zebrafish stress study

Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, have shed light on how some of the genes react to chronic stress...

Ana Barros

Dec 14, 20201 min read

Effects of social distancing

Research from the EARA member the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany, has found how social-distancing and self-isolation...

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 30, 20201 min read

Scar-free healing with zebrafish

The world’s first science programme, to identify the genes that cause scarring, has been launched in the UK and focuses on a zebrafish...

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...

Ana Barros

Nov 23, 20201 min read

Refinement in fish studies

In an important refinement, scientists in the UK have found a less invasive method to collect DNA from fish species. The team at the...

Ana Barros

Oct 19, 20201 min read

Zebrafish microphotography

A stunning image of a zebrafish, used as a research animal model, has won Nikon's Small World microphotography competition. Highlighted...

Ana Barros

Oct 12, 20201 min read

Nanoparticles in zebrafish

Research at Aarhus University, Denmark, has shown what happens to nanoparticles in the bloodstream of a living organism. Nanoparticles –...

Ana Barros

Sep 28, 20201 min read

Zebrafish in rare kidney disease study

A collaboration between UK and Hungarian researchers has identified a gene associated with a rare kidney disease, only two cases of which...

Ana Barros

Aug 24, 20201 min read

Inside the mind of zebrafish

Scientists at Harvard University have uncovered surprising results when studying data analysing the behaviour of zebrafish larvae during...

Antibodies against neurological diseases

Ana Barros

Aug 24, 20201 min read

Antibodies against neurological diseases

Researchers from EARA members the University of Zurich and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland, have found human...

Ana Barros

Aug 24, 20201 min read

Lionfish venom for Alzheimer's study

Researchers in Mexico are using venom found in lionfish spines to understand how neurons in the brain are affected during Alzheimer’s...

Ana Barros

Aug 17, 20201 min read

Personality changes in zebrafish

German scientists have shown, that by selective breeding of zebrafish, distinct personality traits occur both in behaviour and also brain...

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