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Fruit fly brain
Research at EARA member VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, Belgium, has taken a step forward in understanding the brain...
Ana Barros
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Get on #BOARD22
This June, EARA will once again co-ordinate Be Open about Animal Research Day – Get on #BOARD22, the 24-hour global social media campaign...
Ana Barros
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Spanish institutions set the record straight
Authorities at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) and the University of Barcelona (UB) have set the record straight following recent...
Ana Barros
Feb 7, 20221 min read
EARA global membership
EARA has welcomed three new organisations this month to its membership and also begun a new phase in its progress. EARA is now accepting...
Ana Barros
Jan 31, 20221 min read
Ernst Strüngmann video
EARA member, the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), Germany, has published a video showcasing its people and research, including the...
Ana Barros
Jan 31, 20221 min read
Swiss vote
In less than a month’s time Swiss citizens will be asked to decide whether to approve a countrywide ban on research using animals in a...
Ana Barros
Jan 24, 20222 min read
Free webinar
An online free event takes place next week to discuss animal suffering in science. The webinar, co-organised by the European Federation...
Ana Barros
Jan 17, 20221 min read
Fruit flies & eye disease
Research in Portugal has taken a step forward in understanding blindness, through the eyes of fruit flies. Retinitis Pigmentosa – an eye...
Ana Barros
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Omicron variant
Recent animal research on the Covid-19 Omicron variant is helping scientists understand how the virus spreads and causes disease....
Ana Barros
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Spanish transparency report published
The fourth annual report of the Transparency Agreement on Animal Research in Spain has shown the continued drive of institutions in 2020...
Ana Barros
Jan 4, 20222 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
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
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
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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