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News from EARA

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
1 min

EARA at FENS

EARA will be hosting a live-streamed Special Interest Event at the first ever online conference of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS Fo...

Ana Barros

May 11
1 min

Llama antibodies could help combat Covid-19

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, have found that antibodies taken from a llama are some of the first to neutralise the coronavirus. T...

Ana Barros

May 7
1 min

Research in Belgium uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19

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

Apr 27
1 min

Fighting coronavirus using computer modelling

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

Ana Barros

Apr 27
1 min

Belgian scientists set out lab lockdown measures

The biomedical community in Belgium has issued a statement explaining the measures it has taken to protect staff and research animals during the Covid-19 loc...

Ana Barros

Apr 23
3 min

A look back at medical advances in 2019 and the role played by animal research

While biomedical research is being asked to find solutions to the world’s current health emergency, it is worth remembering the wide range of advances in sci...

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

Feb 17
1 min

Discussing cancer at the European level

The Federation of European Academies of Medicine - FEAM - has announced an annual lecture focusing on cancer, one of the major issues for the Horizon Europe....

Ana Barros

Feb 13
2 min

Improving openness in animal research within the European neuroscience community

The European Animal Research Association (EARA) invites you to attend a panel discussion at the FENS Forum of Neuroscience on openness in communications abou...

Ana Barros

Feb 5
5 min

Research sector in Belgium welcomes EU-wide figures on the number of animals used in science

The Belgian biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of the first comprehensive statistics from across the EU, including Belgium, on all uses ...

Ana Barros

Feb 5
1 min

Stripping down bacterial armour: a new way to fight anthrax

Research scientists in Belgium have found a new method to treat anthrax disease in infected mice, raising hope for new effective treatments for humans. Scien...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 31
2 min

EARA sets up a Brussels office

(London, 31 January, 2020) On the eve of Brexit, the European Animal Research Association (EARA) has announced that it is setting up an additional office in ...

Ana Barros

Jan 13
1 min

Bone tissues 'produced on an industrial scale'

Scientists from EARA member KU Leuven, Belgium, have succeeded in growing bone tissue on a large scale. Based on studies with laboratory animals, including m...

Bob Tolliday

Dec 3, 2019
3 min

Belgian researchers commit to Transparency Agreement on animal research

Belgian universities, research centres and companies have signed a Transparency Agreement on animal research with a commitment to communicating in a more ope...

Bob Tolliday

Jun 6, 2019
2 min

EARA study shows the Belgian biomedical sector must continue to improve openness on animal research

A study by the European Animal Research Association (EARA) of websites of biomedical research bodies in Belgium, assessing how they discuss research using an...

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

Feb 28, 2019
4 min

Why Belgium still needs animal testing in the fight against cancer

In a piece first published in the Belgian news magazine Knack (in Dutch), Prof. Damya Laoui, from the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB, an EARA membe...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
3 min

The case for proactive communications of animal statistics

Every year the United Kingdom’s Home Office (the UK ministerial department of internal affairs) publishes its statistics on animals used in scientific proced...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
4 min

We aren’t sadists, but we do animal research

A group of young, ambitious Belgian scientists have had enough of standing by doing nothing while animal research is criticised in the media. This article by...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
1 min

Belgian researchers respond to misinformation about animal testing in an open letter

In response to recent misinformation about the use of animal experiments on the French-speaking television channel RTBF (9 November) in Belgium, a group of r...