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A look back at medical advances in 2019 and the role played by animal research
While biomedical research is being asked to find solutions to the worldโs current health emergency, it is worth remembering the wide...
Ana Barros
Apr 23, 20203 min read
Labs scramble to protect research
Institutions across the world are rising to the challenge of preserving their research on the Covid-19 crisis, as labs shutdown and...
Ana Barros
Apr 6, 20201 min read
Mapping the fight against Covid-19 in Europe
Researchers across Europe are in the forefront of the search for effective drugs to fight the coronavirus. EARA has put together a map...
Ana Barros
Mar 23, 20201 min read
Coronavirus: Italian activists condemned for attack during outbreak
As Italy copes with the spread of coronavirus, a graffiti attack by animal rights activists on the offices of a biomedical research...
Ana Barros
Mar 16, 20201 min read
Research sector in Italy welcomes EU-wide figures on the number of animals used in science
The Italian biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of the first comprehensive statistics, from across the EU, including...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20203 min read
Device to control epileptic seizures works in rats
Scientists at the University of Ferrara, Italy, have developed a treatment for epilepsy with a device implanted into the brain. The...
Ana Barros
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Device to control epileptic seizures works in rats
Researchers using rats have developed a treatment for epilepsy using a device implanted into the brain. The protein-secreting device...
Ana Barros
Jan 21, 20191 min read
The case for proactive communications of animal statistics
Every year the United Kingdomโs Home Office (the UK ministerial department of internal affairs) publishes its statistics on animals used...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20193 min read
Commission announces infringement procedure against restrictive Italian animal research law
The European Commission has announced the start of an infringement procedure against Italy, whose animal research law it calls โtoo...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20192 min read
Italian convictions prompt calls for greater openness
Three Italian animal rights activists convicted of raidingย the University of Milanย animal labsย have received a harsher sentence from the...
Bob Tolliday
Oct 5, 20181 min read
The Italian Research Community asks the European Commission to amend Italian transposition of Direct
Over 37ย private and publicly funded Italian organisations, coordinated by EARAโs Italian partner Research4life, have addressed the...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20162 min read
Green Hill ruling affirmed in Court of Appeals
On Tuesday, the Brescia Court of Appeals affirmed the initial ruling against three staff members of the Green Hill breeding facility in...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20162 min read
Dichiarazione in supporto della Direttiva Europea 2010/63/UE
La Associazione Europea degli ricerca animali (EARA) ha pubblicato una dichiarazione a nome di organizzazioni di ricerca biomedica,...
The European Animal Research Association
Nov 12, 20152 min read
Amendments to the European Directive 2010/63 in Italy have a huge impact in my research
Riccardo Avvisati is a PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome, studying the influences of the environment on drug of abuse in a...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 12, 20153 min read
Serendipity and Animal Research
Dr. Alberto Ferrari is a member of the managing board and of the scientific Committee of Pro-Test Italia, an association dedicated to...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 27, 20157 min read
โPolitically-motivatedโ campaign against Green Hill in Italy condemned by EARA
London, 25 March 2015 Green Hill facility in Montichiari (Italy) persecuted for breeding dogs for scientific research Case re-opened...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 25, 20152 min read
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