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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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Bob Tolliday
May 9, 20221 min read
Netherlands Open Week 9-13 May
This week, in a first of its kind in Europe, the Dutch Transparency Agreement on Animal Testing will be holding an Open Week with a...

Bob Tolliday
May 2, 20221 min read
Final call for #BOARD22 partners
Time is running out for institutions to register to part in EARA’s global social media campaign Be Open About Animal Research Day...

Bob Tolliday
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Toxicity testing without using animals
An article by leading scientists argues that any transition to non-animal methods in toxicology testing will need ‘a new paradigm for...

Ana Barros
Apr 18, 20221 min read
Food cravings & pregnancy
Spanish scientists have taken a step forward in understanding food cravings during pregnancy. The team at EARA member IDIBAPS, Barcelona,...

Ana Barros
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Animal research & brain science
A review of the methods and models used in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease studies, has shown how reliant it still is on research...

Ana Barros
Mar 7, 20221 min read
EU rejects to phase-out call
The EU Commission has voiced its strong support for biomedical research, in a response to calls by the European Parliament for a faster...

Ana Barros
Mar 7, 20221 min read
Virtual events in March
An event on Culture of Care and Responsible Research is taking place virtualy this week. Hosted by the University Hospital Jena, Germany,...

Bob Tolliday
Feb 28, 20221 min read
Brain Sciences prize awarded
An international brain sciences award has gone to a researcher in Argentina for her pioneering work studying brain diseases in mice. The...

Bob Tolliday
Feb 28, 20221 min read
French MP visits research centre
The French MP, Cédric Villani, has recently visited animal facilities at the University of Strasbourg, as its guest, in conjunction with...

Bob Tolliday
Feb 11, 20221 min read
Basic Research Media Training
EARA will hold the first of this year’s series of media training workshops next week, with a focus on how to improve communication of...

Ana Barros
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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 controversy
Authorities at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) and the University of Barcelona (UB) have set the record straight following recent...

Ana Barros
Jan 31, 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 24, 20222 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 17, 20221 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 10, 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 4, 20222 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...
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