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Missing mice in media coverage
Sloppy journalism is leading to a lack of transparency on the reporting of the use of animal models in Alzheimerโs research. A study by...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Pollution & dementia
Scientists from the University of California, Davis, USA, have found a link between air pollution and a higher risk of developing...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
3Rs prize
Work on organoids that could replace the use of mice in some brain studies has won the UKโs major prize for non-animal methods in...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Antibody drug & Covid-19
The EU has purchased 55,000 doses of a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, which significantly reduces the hospitalisation of...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
EU animal statistics database
The EU Commission has published its first statistical database on the use of animals for scientific purposes. The free-access ALURES data...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 7, 20211 min read
Why use animals in neuroscience research?
EARA has published a new article exploring some of the reasons that animal research is still essential in basic and clinical neuroscience...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 7, 20211 min read
Space research with animals
Researchers at Queenโs University Belfast in Northern Ireland, are using zebrafish to understand how humans might be able to safely reach...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 7, 20211 min read
Spanish communications video
EARA member the Spanish Society of Science for Laboratory Animals (SECAL), has produced a video answering common questions about the use...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 7, 20211 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
Jun 4, 20217 min read
EARA invitation to MEP sceptic
Colleagues of an MEP, who expressed doubts about the need for animal research in Covid-19 vaccine testing, have urged her to take up an...
Bob Tolliday
May 31, 20211 min read
Get on #BOARD21
EARA is to co-ordinate the first ever global social media campaign to celebrate proactive communication about animal research in July. On...
Ana Barros
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...
Bob Tolliday
May 31, 20211 min read
EARA letter in the Times
EARA executive director, Kirk Leech, has responded (today 28 May 2021) to an opinion piece in The Times from UK actress Joanna Lumley...
Ana Barros
May 28, 20211 min read
Transparency in Belgium & Spain
Two excellent communications initiatives from Belgium and Spain, using imagery and video, have been published to promote transparency...
Ana Barros
May 24, 20211 min read
Asthma vaccine in mice
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, have developed a successful vaccine to treat severe asthma in mice. In collaboration...
Ana Barros
May 24, 20211 min read
ANZLAA partnership
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) is pleased to announce its new collaborative partnership with the Australian and New...
Bob Tolliday
May 19, 20212 min read
EARA YouTube release & Pint of Science
To mark this weekโs global science communication festival, Pint of Science, EARAโs latest #LetsTalkSciComm video on YouTube has an...
Ana Barros
May 17, 20211 min read
Preventing hearing loss in mice
Exposing ears to near infrared light (NIR) could be a way to prevent noise-induced hearing loss, according to studies by German and US...
Ana Barros
May 17, 20211 min read
3Rs podcast
A podcast looking at the work of 3Rs centres across Europe has been launched. The podcast by the Altertox Academy, based in Belgium,...
Ana Barros
May 16, 20211 min read
Humanised pigs
A team of researchers at Iowa State University, USA are creating pigs with human immune cells, to improve study of some medical...
Bob Tolliday
May 10, 20211 min read
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