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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
Nov 8, 20211 min read
New #TransparencyThursday
A leading scientist on anxiety disorders, will be answering questions about her research using animals as part of EARAโs...
Ana Barros
Oct 25, 20211 min read
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...
Ana Barros
Oct 18, 20211 min read
Malaria vaccine
The World Health Organization has approved a landmark vaccine against malaria for widespread rollout in Africa. The vaccine, developed...
Ana Barros
Oct 11, 20211 min read
New way to fight endometriosis
Research at the University of Oxford, UK, has found a potential new way to fight endometriosis - a disease that causes pain, inflammation...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Awards recognise animal research
The role of animals in research has been recognised by one of the most prestigious US medicine awards. This yearโs Albert Lasker Basic...
Ana Barros
Oct 4, 20211 min read
โLong Covidโ in monkeys
Studying macaques, EARA member, the Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Netherlands, has discovered the hidden long-term effects Covid-19...
Ana Barros
Sep 13, 20211 min read
Animal studies and new cholesterol jab
A new type of injection to lower cholesterol in the blood has now been approved for use both by EU and the UK. EARA member, Novartis,...
Ana Barros
Sep 6, 20211 min read
BRAD in September
Biomedical Research Awareness Day (BRAD) takes place next month for the second time this year. Organised by Americans for Medical...
Ana Barros
Aug 30, 20211 min read
The Economist on monkeys in neuroscience research
The growing shortage of monkeys needed for biomedical research due to Chinaโs export ban and growing worldwide demand has been examined...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 2, 20212 min read
Vision studies in monkeys
Researchers from the Paris Vision Institute, France, have made further groundbreaking advances with a potential therapy to restore sight...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Implants to restore vision
Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, have created a brain implant that could restore some vision in...
Ana Barros
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Animals in neuroscience research
Insights into the use of monkeys and mice in neuroscience research have been highlighted in a video produced by EARA member Ernst...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Primates in Covid-19 video
A behind-the-scenes video, at a facility in Louisiana, USA, has highlighted the importance of studies using monkeys in the fight against...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 21, 20211 min read
Antibody drug & Covid-19
The EU has purchased 55,000 doses of a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, which significantly reduces the hospitalisation of...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Feature: Why do we need to use animals in neuroscience research?
Perhaps more than in any other field of biomedical research, it is essential to use animals to understand the functions of the brain,...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 4, 20217 min read
EARA letter in the Times
EARA executive director, Kirk Leech, has responded (today 28 May 2021) to an opinion piece in The Times from UK actress Joanna Lumley...
Ana Barros
May 28, 20211 min read
Human-monkey cell research
An important ethical discussion has begun following the US-China scientific collaboration that has grown human cells in a monkey embryo...
Ana Barros
Apr 26, 20211 min read
2020 medical breakthroughs
To mark World Laboratory Animals Day, EARA has published a feature looking back at some of the medical breakthroughs made possible with...
Ana Barros
Apr 26, 20211 min read
Alzheimerโs studies animal models
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Berlin, have created a gene therapy using mice which could help to treat...
Ana Barros
Apr 5, 20211 min read
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