Monkeys & tests for hearing
Researchers in Germany have developed a touchscreen test, using monkeys, which will help improve the quality and safety of hearing...
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Ana Barros
Mar 21, 20221 min
Monkeys dataset
Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have published a database of readings from a monkey brain, which could...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 28, 20221 min
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 21, 20221 min
Neuralink response
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has said that claims that monkeys were mistreated during research are ‘misleading’. Neuralink, and the California...
Ana Barros
Feb 14, 20221 min
Spinal implant offers promise for the paralysed
Swiss researchers have developed an implant that allows patients with a complete spinal cord injury to stand and walk again (video). The...
Ana Barros
Jan 31, 20221 min
Ernst Strüngmann video
EARA member, the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), Germany, has published a video showcasing its people and research, including the...
Ana Barros
Dec 6, 20211 min
HIV and CRISPR
Two new potential therapies to fight HIV have been welcomed as World AIDS Day was marked last week. Researchers at Temple University,...
Ana Barros
Nov 22, 20211 min
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 15, 20211 min
3Rs awards
Prizes which recognised three innovations, that reduce the need for animals in research, have been won by scientists from China, the UK...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 8, 20212 min
Covid research and the contribution of monkeys
A recent article, in the French publication Usbek & Rica, has asked a number of scientists to explain the importance of using monkeys in...
Ana Barros
Nov 8, 20211 min
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
Oct 25, 20211 min
New #TransparencyThursday
A leading scientist on anxiety disorders, will be answering questions about her research using animals as part of EARA’s...
Ana Barros
Oct 18, 20211 min
Animal use and Covid-19 research
Researchers have highlighted the critical role that animals played in Covid-19 research in Germany. The team at the German Centre for the...
