Representatives from PETA and Doctors Against Animal Experiments presented to the petition committee of the German Parliament on 1 December, calling for a phased EU-wide end to primate research.

An EARA Conference satellite event at Berlin Science Week, co-organised by communications organisation Tierversuche verstehen (TVV), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Max Delbrück Center and EARA, titled "Turning point in health research – Responsibility and communication in dealing with animal research”, featured a panel discussion on the future of biomedical research in Germany. 

A study in Germany revealed that pig pancreas development closely resembles humans, making pigs valuable for studying pancreatic diseases, including diabetes. 

The first EARA Conference (#EARA2025) took place on 6–7 November at the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) in Berlin, co-organised with MDC and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The event gathered over 200 participants from 23 countries, including researchers, animal welfare officers, journalists, communicators and policy specialists, to exchange ideas on transparency, ethics and effective science communication.

Researchers in Germany and Austria have discovered that the acidic environment inside tumours plays a key role in promoting cancer survival and growth.  

Researchers in Germany and the UK have discovered a compound produced by bacteria that may reduce colorectal cancer growth and enhance chemotherapy response, in a study using worms and fruit flies. 

Researchers in Germany have found, in a study using mice and humans, that loss of the sense of smell can be one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s, before cognitive impairment. 

An opinion article in the German newspaper Die Zeit by Olivia Masseck, a professor at the University of Cologne, provides an overview on why animals are needed in basic brain research and argues that a complete ban of animal use in research would risk progress in medicine. 

Research from Germany has discovered that facial expressions in mice and macaques can be used to measure cognitive states and understand thought processes — a potential breakthrough for brain research. 

Using computer modelling and animal studies researchers in Germany have found that rhythmic patterns in brain cell circuits play a...

The 2025 Brain Prize  has gone to two researchers who used mice in their ‘revolutionary’ research linking the brain and cancer. Frank...

An individual’s lifetime risk of cancer may be established before they are born, a study in mice has suggested. Researchers, led by EARA...

Using CRISPR gene editing , researchers in Germany have successfully corrected faulty genes that cause muscle disease, to repair the...

A patch of lab-grown heart muscle has treated a woman with heart failure, following earlier success in monkeys. The results , published...

Researchers across Germany have explained why animal research cannot yet be avoided, in more than 100 quotes collected by the advocacy...

Researchers have identified the importance of specialised blood vessels, in the bones of mice, that could provide a new understanding of...

The latest episode of the EARA Let’s Talk SciComm YouTube series features the co-hosts of the podcast, Fabeln, Fell & Fakten (Fables,...

Here is a selection of the most-read research stories in the EARA News Digest this year: In April, a study at NERF  (a centre at EARA...

Newly published statistics on the use of animals in research for 2023  in Germany show both a significant short and long-term decline in...

German national magazine Der Spiegel  has published an informative and sympathetic article on Andreas Kreiter (pictured), a...