UAR response to MBR protests
UK advocacy group Understanding Animal Research have published an open letter in The Times in response to protests surrounding dog...
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Becky Jones
- Jul 5
- 1 min
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...
Becky Jones
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Antibodies for dogs
Scientists at the UK firm PetMedix, have created a system which could help make better potential new antibody medicines for dogs. In...
Ana Barros
- Apr 23
- 5 min
Feature: Biomedical breakthroughs in 2020 - how research with animals contributed
While Covid-19 research has dominated the headlines, day-to-day research into many other conditions to improve our understanding of the...
Ana Barros
- Mar 22
- 1 min
Animals & Covid-19
As concerns grow over whether animals could continue to infect humans or other animals, Covid-19 researchers are seeking to identify...
Ana Barros
- Mar 15
- 1 min
Brain Prize 2021
The largest annual prize for neuroscience has been awarded to four scientists for their research on migraine studies, using animal...
Ana Barros
- Feb 15
- 1 min
Dogs & ageing
Researchers in Hungary are studying pet dogs to help understand the ageing process in humans. Living with people means that dogs have...
Ana Barros
- Aug 3, 2020
- 1 min
How dogs and pigs communicate with humans
A team of researchers at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, have analysed the differences between how dogs and pigs communicate with...
Ana Barros
- Jul 20, 2020
- 1 min
UK animal use stats
The UK government has released its 2019 annual statistics on animals used in scientific procedures. The figures show that 3,401,517...
Ana Barros
- Jul 13, 2020
- 1 min
Dogs & Covid-19
Researchers at EARA member the University of Helsinki, Finland, have successfully trained dogs to detect Covid-19 in human samples using...
Ana Barros
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Research dog welfare
EARA member Covance Laboratories, along with Novo Nordisk, have collaborated to enhance the design of cages to house dogs used in drug...
Ana Barros
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Research calms concerns of Covid-19 in animals
Fears of domestic and farm animals being infected by Covid-19 and in turn spreading it further, has led experts to seek answers using...
Ana Barros
- Jan 27, 2020
- 1 min
German lab’s licence revoked
The operating licence of a facility run by the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT), Germany, has been revoked by the...
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....
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Jan 8, 2019
- 5 min
Research with dogs develops an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes
White Coat Waste is a conservative animal rights organization devoted to the elimination of animal research. Its first target is...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 15, 2016
- 1 min
Animal research & Downton Abbey
In one of the goriest scenes on television last year, Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey collapsed after violently coughing up blood all over...
Bob Tolliday
- Jan 27, 2016
- 2 min
Nobel Prize 2015: using animal research to get rid of parasites
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine is shared between William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu, who contributed...
Bob Tolliday
- Dec 8, 2015
- 1 min
EARA welcomes B&K decision
Media Release London, 16 July 2015 Kirk Leech, Executive Director of the European Animal Research Association: “This is good news....
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 19, 2015
- 4 min
Why People Are Wrong to Oppose the New UK Beagle Breeding Facility
Where do medicines come from? It’s not a question most of us bother with when we take advantage of the huge array of medical treatments...