Animal experiments, cell studies and computational models are being used by researchers around the world to find the origins of the current pandemic. An arti...

The EU’s agency to advance the 3Rs in animal procedures has called for an end to the use of animals in the development and production of antibodies. The EU R...

Grants to support training in the 3Rs are being offered by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS). There are grants available for animal re...

The Human Brain Project, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and its partner Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, are now using their knowledge of computer modelling...

A new online platform to publish information about different methods for the refinement and improvement of animal experiments has been launched. Norecopa, No...

EARA member, Swiss Laboratory Animal Science has released video interviews with the winners of its most recent 3Rs awards. The awards recognise scientists in...

A major study has reached a significant conclusion about the use of animal species in drug safety testing. Currently, regulators require testing on two speci...

EARA has challenged comments made by an MEP, who has called for the withdrawal of funding from 'animal-based research'. Tilly Metz MEP, a Luxembourg member o...

A study by researchers, in the UK and Canada, has revealed a new technique, using tumour organoids, to understand how cells communicate with each other withi...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Harvard University, USA, have created organs-on-a chip that may be a better predictor of drug response and als...

Podcasts aimed at explaining about biomedical research and the use of animals and the 3Rs are cropping up online and via Twitter. Lab Rat Chat, supported by...

Scientists from the Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands, have grown organoids of snake venom glands to produce real venom, which could be used to create antidote...

The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has submitted a guidance document on Non-Technical Summaries (NTS) to the EU Commission on how NTS can be mad...

The European scientific community supports the view of the EU Commission, that the Directive on the protection of animals used in biomedical research is brin...

The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has backed the UK government’s recent statements on its commitment to animal welfare. The UK Parliament recen...

The European Commission published in April 2017 the report of the conference ‘Non-Animal Approaches – The way forward’ that they organised in Brussels on 6 a...

A joint open meeting, hosted by Ms Vicky Ford MEP and Dr Cristian Busoi MEP, at the European Parliament, in Brussels, in January 2015, discussed why, and in w...