EU and animal research
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News from EARA
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Ana Barros
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
Antibodies against neurological diseases
Researchers from EARA members the University of Zurich and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland, have found human...
Ana Barros
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Personality changes in zebrafish
German scientists have shown, that by selective breeding of zebrafish, distinct personality traits occur both in behaviour and also brain...
Ana Barros
- Aug 17, 2020
- 1 min
Sex & fruit flies
Scientists in Portugal have found key behaviours that trigger the transition from courtship to mating in fruit flies (see video). The...
Ana Barros
- Aug 10, 2020
- 1 min
Mice & immune cell development
Researchers from EARA member Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, have found key details about how our immune system develops....
Ana Barros
- Jul 13, 2020
- 1 min
Flatfish skin diseases
Belgian researchers have developed a lab model of flatfish skin to understand a recent unexplained increase in skin ulcers. Flatfish,...
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
- Jul 6, 2020
- 1 min
Visit us at FENS
EARA will be among the exhibitors at the online FENS Forum 2020, starting this Saturday. Visit us at the Consortium for Public Outreach...
Ana Barros
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
Virtual lab tours
With in-person laboratory tours impossible at present, virtual tours to engage with the public are showing their value. An article in The...
Ana Barros
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Swiss advocacy group rebrands
EARA Member, the Basel Declaration Society, based in Switzerland, has rebranded as Animal Research Tomorrow. The organisation now has a...
Ana Barros
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
Animal research comms in Belgium & Netherlands
EARA member Infopoint Animal Testing (IPPO), based in Belgium, has launched an informative booklet (only available in Dutch) on...
Ana Barros
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
Sweden & France events
A free webinar, focusing on the activities of EARA, and hosted by the European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV) and the...
Ana Barros
- Jun 1, 2020
- 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...
Ana Barros
- May 26, 2020
- 1 min
Zebrafish & regenerative medicine
Two separate studies, using zebrafish, are helping to give greater insights into how cells regrow in different parts of the body. At...
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
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Responses needed for survey on rodent surgery
Swiss researchers are looking for responses to a survey looking at the challenges and pitfalls of experimental surgery in rodents. The...
Ana Barros
- May 11, 2020
- 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...
Ana Barros
- May 4, 2020
- 1 min
Online efforts in times of pandemic
An alliance of six life science research institutes, in Portugal, has launched a website to centralise and share scientific content and...
Ana Barros
- Apr 27, 2020
- 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...
Ana Barros
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min
World’s largest vaccine companies work together on Covid-19
EARA members Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have announced a vaccine collaboration to fight Covid-19. The vaccine is based on the...