Animal Research

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This page contains all the news outputs from EARA, including press releases and videos, EARA policy and news briefings, plus opinion pieces and significant media articles.

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Ana Barros

3 days ago
2 min

How animals are helping in Covid-19 research - a global overview

The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across the world to find a...

Ana Barros

6 days ago
1 min

Study: Use only one animal species in some drug tests

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...

Ana Barros

6 days ago
1 min

Covid-19 study shows immunity to reinfection in monkeys

Scientists in China, in a study with monkeys, have found that they were immune to the coronavirus if given a second exposure to it after the original infecti...

Ana Barros

Mar 26
3 min

EARA supports call to end embargo by transport providers in the UK and US on animal research

For immediate release 26/03/2020: Further information contact EARA Communications Manager, Bob Tolliday, o26+44 (0)7970 132801 The European Animal Research A...

Ana Barros

Mar 24
1 min

Virologist warns against a 'quick fix' for Covid-19 vaccine

An opinion piece in Nature has called on scientists not to skip testing in animal models and maintain safety checks in the development of coronavirus drugs. ...

Ana Barros

Mar 23
1 min

Coronavirus: Activist groups keep silent on animal research

EARA research has revealed a notable absence of calls to ban animal research from activist groups during the coronavirus crisis. In an article in Spiked maga...

Ana Barros

Mar 23
1 min

Mapping the fight against Covid-19 in Europe

Researchers across Europe are in the forefront of the search for effective drugs to fight the coronavirus. EARA has put together a map animation to display t...

Ana Barros

Mar 22
1 min

Pioneering transplant that tricks the immune system

Scientists have successfully transplanted the leg from a brown rat to a white rat, using a technique that tricks the body into accepting foreign tissue as it...

Ana Barros

Mar 9
1 min

Coronavirus: The search for an animal model to study coronavirus

Scientists around the world are in a race to find the animal species that is the most suitable to use in tests for a Covid-19 virus vaccine. Ferrets, monkeys...

Ana Barros

Feb 10
1 min

Coronavirus: Animal testing plays part in the race to find a vaccine

As the Chinese coronavirus spreads, scientists around the world are working non-stop to find a vaccine and animal models are a vital part of the research pro...

mburberry8

Apr 30, 2019
2 min

Marking 50 years of biomedical research with minipigs

EARA member Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs has marked 50 years of the company at its Scientific Symposium, in London, UK, which also looked at future biomedica...

Bob Tolliday

Apr 23, 2019
1 min

Largest robotic surgical training centre in the world opens in Belgium

Orsi Academy, the largest robotically assisted training centre found anywhere in the world has opened its new campus in Melle, Belgium. The EARA member compa...

Bob Tolliday

Apr 20, 2019
1 min

Fruit fly research on prime time TV in Portugal

Portuguese TV news has highlighted the use of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) as an animal research model at the labs of the Champalimaud Foundation Th...

mburberry8

Apr 17, 2019
2 min

A look back at recent biomedical breakthroughs thanks to animal research

On the eve of Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD 18 April), EARA looks back at some of the important medical advances over the last year that have invol...

Bob Tolliday

Mar 8, 2019
4 min

Personhood for animals?

Animals are not capable of taking responsibility for their own actions, never mind having a say in how society is run, says EARA Executive Director, Kirk Lee...

Bob Tolliday

Mar 5, 2019
7 min

Animal research – a debate between a primate researcher and an opponent

A moderated debate between Prof. Stefan Treue, (pictured below) animal physiologist, neuroscientist and director of the German Primate Center – Leibniz Insti...

Bob Tolliday

Mar 5, 2019
7 min

University of Munster launches Principles document on the ethical treatment of animals in testing.

The University of Münster, in Germany, has launched its Principles on the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Scientific Research and Teaching, as part of the in...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 15, 2019
2 min

Another year of medical achievements thanks to animal research

Another year of medical achievements thanks to animal research A look back by EARA at some of the important discoveries in recent times The last year has onc...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
4 min

Vaccines Save Lives

The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls on European policymakers, health care workers and parents to increase vaccination efforts against measles and warns...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
5 min

The Research Animals That Have Made A Difference

Over the last 40 years, every Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine but one has depended on work using animals. From modern vaccines that protect us against ...