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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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Bob Tolliday
Feb 17, 20211 min read
China y la crisis de los macacos
No hay macacos suficientes para probar las vacunas contra la COVID-19 que aún están en Fase 1, entre ellas, la española más avanzada. El...

Bob Tolliday
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Huntington's disease research
Researchers at the University of Barcelona, Spain, have found mutations in a protein that can be linked to Huntington’s disease, a...

Bob Tolliday
Jan 11, 20211 min read
Extending life of donor eyes
An international team, co-ordinated by the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain, is creating a device that resuscitates eyes...

Bob Tolliday
Dec 21, 20203 min read
Openness in Spain - annual report
The third annual report analysing the openness of Spanish biomedical institutions, and how they discuss the use of animals in research,...

Bob Tolliday
Dec 21, 20204 min read
Informe anual 2020 del Acuerdo de transparencia
El uso de modelos animales sigue siendo fundamental para la medicina del futuro El nivel de transparencia de las instituciones...

Ana Barros
Dec 7, 20201 min read
Age-related disease therapy
Spanish scientists have created a spin-off company to develop the first treatment for lung fibrosis based on gene therapy. Pulmonary...

Ana Barros
Nov 17, 20204 min read
Spain - EARA Study of EU-based websites 2020
A study of the websites of biomedical research bodies in Spain, assessing how they discuss research using animals, published by the...

Ana Barros
Nov 17, 20204 min read
EARA Study of EU-based websites 2020
The second study of websites of biomedical research bodies across the EU, published by the European Animal Research Association (EARA),...

Ana Barros
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Animal antibody concerns
Spanish and Dutch scientists, have highlighted the concerns of the biomedical research community over the EU Commission recommendations...

Bob Tolliday
Oct 8, 20201 min read
EARA media training workshops
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) will hold four online media training sessions in November, with the support of the...

Bob Tolliday
Oct 5, 20202 min read
Animal-derived antibody debate
An article, just published in a leading scientific journal, by a group of Spanish biomedical institutions and EARA, claims the EU...

Ana Barros
Oct 5, 20201 min read
Chemotherapy side effects study
A study on mice by researchers in Spain has discovered the process that causes serious side effects on the nervous system during...

Ana Barros
Aug 3, 20201 min read
New target in Alzheimer’s
A team of Spanish scientists has identified the role of an enzyme which reduces inflammation in the brain. The study, published in the...

Ana Barros
Jul 20, 20201 min read
EU survey
European researchers have confirmed the importance of using animals to the success of their studies, in a major EU survey. The Joint...

Ana Barros
Jun 29, 20201 min read
Organoids & Covid-19
A team of international researchers are growing miniature organs in the lab to understand how Covid-19 damages the body. Studies using...

Ana Barros
Jun 7, 20201 min read
Booklets for children
SECAL, the Spanish Society for Laboratory Animal Sciences, has developed a series of teaching booklets, aimed at children, on research...

Ana Barros
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Podcast on EARA & EU regulations
EARA board member Javier Guillén is the latest guest on the popular Lab Rat Chat podcast, sponsored by Americans for Medical Progress....

Ana Barros
May 7, 20201 min read
Research in Spain uses animals to find effective treatments for Covid-19
The European Animal Research Association has put together an interactive map to display the biomedical research currently underway across...


Ana Barros
Apr 23, 20203 min read
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...

Ana Barros
Apr 14, 20201 min read
Covid-19 ventilators developed using animal models
A group of volunteer engineers and doctors, in Spain, have successfully tested a prototype 3D printed ventilator on a pig. The research,...
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