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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.

Other pages in this section explain more about EARA on social media and practical information for journalists.

Bob Tolliday

Mar 5, 2019
7 min

Animal research – a debate between a primate researcher and an opponent

A moderated debate between Prof. Stefan Treue, (pictured below) animal physiologist, neuroscientist and director of the German Primate Center – Leibniz Insti...

Bob Tolliday

Feb 24, 2019
1 min

The last airline flying – Lab Animal column

The March issue of Lab Animal magazine features an Outreach column written by Kirk Leech, our Executive Director. In this month’s column, the first of a seri...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
4 min

Vaccines Save Lives

The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls on European policymakers, health care workers and parents to increase vaccination efforts against measles and warns...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 8, 2019
3 min

Three cheers for China’s cloned monkeys

It’s likely that you have heard of ‘Dolly’ the sheep, famously announced as the first mammal ever to be successfully cloned, in February 1997 (Dolly was born...

Bob Tolliday

Nov 15, 2018
3 min

Opinion: Making sense of sentience

With a draft UK Animal Welfare Bill looking to put the concept of ‘animal sentience”directly into law and an ongoing debate about the levels of pain differen...

Bob Tolliday

Aug 15, 2016
3 min

On Lab Animal Day, Belgian science unites in support of animal research

This blog was also published on Huffington Post UK. World Day for Laboratory Animals on 24 April was originally established by animal rights activists to rai...

Bob Tolliday

Jan 27, 2016
4 min

Panel Discussion: Effectiveness and reliability of alternative methods used for regulatory purposes

On December 1 of last year the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) celebrated its tenth anniversary with a conference in...

Bob Tolliday

Aug 19, 2015
4 min

Why People Are Wrong to Oppose the New UK Beagle Breeding Facility

Where do medicines come from? It’s not a question most of us bother with when we take advantage of the huge array of medical treatments available to us. All ...

Bob Tolliday

Aug 12, 2015
3 min

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 rodent model. He is curre...

Bob Tolliday

Aug 11, 2015
5 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

Jul 27, 2015
7 min

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 correct scientific info...

Bob Tolliday

Jun 16, 2015
5 min

It’s All About the Animals

The following guest post is by Richard Marble RLATg, CMAR, Laboratory Animal Facility Coordinator at Ferris State University. In this article, he provides an...

Bob Tolliday

Feb 13, 2015
4 min

Why I do Animal Research – Lars Dittrich, PhD, Neurobiologist

Lately, I came across a number of campaigns that called for an end of animal research in Germany. Some had a factual appearance, like the appeal from Doctors...