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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....
Gege Li
Sep 2, 20241 min read
Treating bowel disease using caterpillars
A recent interview has highlighted the emerging value of caterpillars to the study of diseases of the intestines and how this...
Gege Li
Aug 27, 20241 min read
Insights into treating long Covid
US studies, using animals, have uncovered new information about the long-term effects of Covid-19 and the health complications it can...
Gege Li
Aug 27, 20242 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....
Nuno Gonçalves
Aug 23, 20241 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...
Gege Li
Aug 19, 20242 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...
Nuno Gonçalves
Aug 19, 20241 min read
Accelerating drug discovery in animals
Biotechnology companies are increasingly looking to large-scale animal studies, that can test multiple potential treatments at once, to...
Gege Li
Aug 19, 20241 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...
Georgios Petrellis
Aug 12, 20241 min read
Reducing mice in cancer research using chicken eggs – video
The value of using chicken eggs to study cancer has been highlighted in a recent video , which holds the potential to reduce how many...
Gege Li
Aug 12, 20241 min read
Sheep studies on new biomaterials
Using sheep, separate studies from France and the US have uncovered potential biomaterial treatments for heart disease and cartilage...
Nuno Gonçalves
Aug 12, 20242 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
Aug 5, 20241 min read
Monkey study for treating Parkinson’s
Researchers in the US have delivered human neurons, that are damaged in Parkinson’s, into monkeys as a new approach for treating the...
Gege Li
Aug 5, 20241 min read
Spinal cord research using chicken embryos
Research with chicken embryos and human stem cells, to understand more about conditions like spina bifida, has used 3D printed sensors to...
Nuno Gonçalves
Jul 29, 20241 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 29, 20241 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 29, 20241 min read
Animal study insights into bird flu
Following an outbreak of bird flu in cattle, researchers are trying understand the potential of the disease to cause infection in humans.
Bob Tolliday
Jul 23, 20241 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.
Nuno Gonçalves
Jul 23, 20241 min read
Biomedical sector in Portugal welcomes 2022 EU report on the number of animals used in research and testing
The Portuguese biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics, from across the EU in 2022.
Bob Tolliday
Jul 22, 20244 min read
Biomedical sector in the Netherlands welcomes 2022 EU report on the number of animals used in research and testing
The Netherlands biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics, from across the EU in 2022.
Bob Tolliday
Jul 22, 20244 min read
Biomedical sector in Italy welcomes 2022 EU report on the number of animals used in research and testing
The Italian biomedical research sector has welcomed today the publication of comprehensive statistics, from across the EU in 2022.
Bob Tolliday
Jul 22, 20244 min read
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