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News from EARA

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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Ana Barros

May 26
4 min

Covid-19 research

In the research to combat Covid-19, one of the most important, and in demand, animals to use as models for understanding the virus, and for assessing potenti...

Ana Barros

Apr 23
3 min

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 world’s current health emergency, it is worth remembering the wide range of advances in sci...

Ana Barros

Mar 30
1 min

Study: Use only one animal species in some drug tests

A major study has reached a significant conclusion about the use of animal species in drug safety testing. Currently, regulators require testing on two speci...

Ana Barros

Mar 23
1 min

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 animation to display t...

Ana Barros

Feb 5
3 min

Research sector in the Netherlands welcomes EU-wide figures on the number of animals in science

The Dutch biomedical research sector has welcomed the publication of the first comprehensive statistics, from across the EU, including the Netherlands, on al...

Ana Barros

Feb 5
1 min

Studying mice to help prevent heart attacks and stroke

Research from Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, has used animal imaging studies to identify when arteries become clogged with fatty subst...

Ana Barros

Feb 3
1 min

Venom gland organoids may lead to wider treatments

Scientists from the Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands, have grown organoids of snake venom glands to produce real venom, which could be used to create antidote...

Ana Barros

Dec 15, 2019
2 min

‘We need to ensure the public hear the good stories as well’, Dutch audience hears at EARA event

EARA’s latest event at Maastricht University, has highlighted the importance of open, proactive, and accurate communication with the Netherlands public on th...

Ana Barros

Oct 31, 2019
2 min

Free EARA event on openness in animal research in the Netherlands, this December

The latest in the series of EARA science communications events, supported by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the Society for Neu...

Bob Tolliday

Apr 15, 2019
2 min

Cancer studies see rise in use of animals in Netherlands research

Increased biomedical research into cancer has seen a rise in the number of procedures using animals in the Netherlands, the latest statistics show. The annua...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

Primate poposal by Netherlands government ‘will severely limit progress on biomedical research’.

EARA has responded to a call by the Dutch Science Minister for the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), in the Netherlands, an EARA member, to draw up ...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
1 min

Dutch Parliament backs primate research

In response to calls to reduce the number of experiments with non-human primates (NHP) by up to 40% in the Netherlands the Dutch Parliament has now reached a...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
3 min

The case for proactive communications of animal statistics

Every year the United Kingdom’s Home Office (the UK ministerial department of internal affairs) publishes its statistics on animals used in scientific proced...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

Dutch animal research statistics: 18% more procedures than in 2013

The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit, NVWA) published Zo doende 2014, its annual report of ani...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
1 min

Dutch Parliament passes motion to phase out non-human primate research

Last week, the Dutch Parliament passed a motion supported by all parties asking Government to investigate completely phasing out non-human primate research a...

Bob Tolliday

Aug 11, 2015
4 min

A Researcher’s Perspective

This post is a translation of a Dutch blog that was originally published on the Faces of Science website on March 12, 2015. Marieke Rienks, PhD student in Mo...

Bob Tolliday

Feb 13, 2015
2 min

Why heart research on dogs is required

The European Animal Research Association (EARA) supports the use of experimental animals when no other alternative is possible. The research into pacemakers ...