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Science communication on YouTube in 2021
In 2021 EARA launched its new video series #LetsTalkSciComm, inviting leading science communicators to share their tips and experiences...
Ana Barros
Dec 27, 20211 min read
Science communicator needed in Belgium
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) and the Belgian Council for Laboratory Animal Science (BCLAS) are looking for a science...
Ana Barros
Dec 27, 20211 min read
Treating heart failure
Researchers in Germany have found a way to improve the treatment of heart failure, using a combination of animal studies and new approach...
Ana Barros
Dec 21, 20211 min read
Reproducibility issue in cancer biology
An eight-year study by researchers in the US has found that fewer than half of the most influential cancer biology experiments of the...
Ana Barros
Dec 21, 20211 min read
3Rs improvement in rodent studies
Scientists from the Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Olomouc, Czechia, have developed a less stressful and painful way...
Ana Barros
Dec 21, 20211 min read
Scientists talk about their research using animals
Find out more about how leading scientists from around the world have been answering your questions about their studies using animals. ...
Ana Barros
Dec 20, 20211 min read
Sex selection & gene editing
A method of gene-editing that can produce single-sex litters of mice could prove a major boost to animal welfare in scientific research...
Ana Barros
Dec 13, 20211 min read
UAR Openness Awards
The annual Openness Awards, hosted by Understanding Animal Research, UK, took place in person last week, rewarding excellent examples of...
Ana Barros
Dec 13, 20211 min read
Leukaemia treatment
Researchers in Sweden and Norway have developed a new therapy for blood cancer. The approach has the potential to spare healthy T and B...
Ana Barros
Dec 13, 20211 min read
Lyme disease vaccine
Scientists at Yale University School of Medicine, USA, have developed a vaccine against Lyme disease, based on the same technology used...
Ana Barros
Dec 6, 20211 min read
EARA at Oxford webinar
An online event, tomorrow (7 Dec) to discuss developments in 3Rs practices will also feature a talk by EARA Executive Director, Kirk...
Ana Barros
Dec 6, 20211 min read
HIV and CRISPR
Two new potential therapies to fight HIV have been welcomed as World AIDS Day was marked last week. Researchers at Temple University,...
Ana Barros
Dec 6, 20211 min read
EARA at events in Portugal
EARA will take part in a discussion on the recent vote by the EU Parliament to end animal research, and its potential impact in Europe,...
Ana Barros
Nov 29, 20211 min read
Balancing fear
Scientists at the EARA member, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany, have found how the body, not just the brain, regulates fear...
Ana Barros
Nov 29, 20211 min read
Treatments for blood cancer
Belgian researchers have identified a new target to treat patients with an advanced form of blood cancer, thanks to research in mice and...
Ana Barros
Nov 29, 20211 min read
Journalism award
An article reporting on Covid-19 research at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, The Netherlands, has won the Silver Award in the...
Ana Barros
Nov 22, 20211 min read
EARA at Spanish event
The biomedical community needs to ‘shift the balance’ to talk more about the benefits of using animals in research, EARA executive...
Ana Barros
Nov 22, 20211 min read
Climate change & animal research
Marking the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK, have has highlighted some ways that animal research...
Ana Barros
Nov 22, 20211 min read
Alzheimer’s & human data
Using human data, scientists at University of Cambridge, UK, have found that Alzheimer’s progresses in a different way than previously...
Ana Barros
Nov 22, 20211 min read
Frogs & kidney disease
Researchers at EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, have found a better way to study kidney disease by using frogs. With...
Ana Barros
Nov 15, 20211 min read
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