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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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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
3Rs awards
Prizes which recognised three innovations, that reduce the need for animals in research, have been won by scientists from China, the UK...
Ana Barros
Nov 15, 20211 min read
Neuroscientist Q&A on EARA Instagram
This Thursday, a leading researcher from Germany will be answering questions on EARA Instagram about his research on motion and movement....
Ana Barros
Nov 8, 20211 min read
Outdoor Auditorium
A Portuguese research institute has been offering outdoor talks for all its staff and students, to find out more about their research....
Ana Barros
Nov 8, 20211 min read
Netherlands Transparency Agreement on animal research launched
Today, 15 Dutch biomedical organisations have made a significant commitment to openness about the use of animals in research, by signing...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 2, 20212 min read
Animal research events
Two free online events on animal research are taking place this week in France and in the Netherlands. Utrecht University, Netherlands,...
Ana Barros
Oct 25, 20211 min read
Dengue fever breakthrough
Researchers in Belgium, at EARA member KU Leuven and the Centre for Drug Design and Discovery (CD3), have developed a treatment for...
Ana Barros
Oct 18, 20211 min read
3Rs online webinars
A series of four free events hosted by a pan-European group of 3Rs centres, will take place online from this Thursday until December....
Ana Barros
Oct 18, 20211 min read
Malaria vaccine
The World Health Organization has approved a landmark vaccine against malaria for widespread rollout in Africa. The vaccine, developed...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Minipigs for vaccine testing
EARA members, from Denmark and France, have demonstrated how minipigs can help develop and test new vaccines against whooping cough. At...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Regenerating heart cells
A team at EARA member the Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research, Germany, has shown for the first time, using basic research,...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Events in Greece
Two EARA members in Greece are holding events this October. The “29th meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience” takes place...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
October 3Rs webinars
A webinar series to discuss ways to improve the implementation of the 3Rs in Belgium and the Netherlands will take place this autumn. The...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 27, 20211 min read
Italy openness event
In EARA’s first face-to-face event since 2019, members of the Italian biomedical research community came together in Milan, in September,...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 22, 20212 min read
Fighting cancer with Covid technology
Recent studies have shown that vaccine technology used for Covid-19 has been effective in halting the growth of cancerous tumours in...
Ana Barros
Sep 20, 20211 min read
Open call – 3Rs & Communications
Two grants to support young scientists in communicating about animal research and the development of alternative methods have been...
Ana Barros
Sep 13, 20211 min read
Organoids at global event
The 11th World Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing concluded last week, under the theme of 3Rs in Transition: From development to...
Ana Barros
Sep 6, 20211 min read
Openness in Italy
Improving Openness and Animal Research in Italy – Free event, Friday 17 September 14:00-17:30 CEST Aula Magna, Dipartimento di Scienze...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 2, 20214 min read
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