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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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โBioelectronicsโ & brain disease
Swedish researchers have grown electrodes in the tissue of zebrafish and leeches, which could lead to mimicking technologies that can...
Gege Li
Mar 13, 20231 min read
New treatment for rare brain disease
A study, on mice and patient brain tissues, sheds light on a rare disease and suggests a treatment based on routinely used blood-thinning...
Maria Vlastara
Sep 5, 20221 min read
European biomedical sector welcomes 2019 EU figures on animal research
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has welcomed the publication of comprehensive statistics for 2019, from across the...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 19, 20223 min read
Salamander heart study
While the human heart has a very limited capacity to regenerate itself, amphibians, such as salamanders, can easily regenerate their...
Maria Vlastara
May 23, 20221 min read
3D bioprinting & alternatives
Two European projects are seeking to reduce the use of animals in research by using 3D bioprinting. The BRIGHTER project aims to overcome...
Ana Barros
Mar 7, 20221 min read
Replacing mice to study brain cancer
Scientists at Uppsala University, Sweden, have created a new way to study brain cancer tumours and partly replace the use of mice models...
Ana Barros
Jan 10, 20221 min read
Leukaemia treatment
Researchers in Sweden and Norway have developed a new therapy for blood cancer. The approach has the potential to spare healthy T and B...
Ana Barros
Dec 13, 20211 min read
3Rs online webinars
A series of four free events hosted by a pan-European group of 3Rs centres, will take place online from this Thursday until December....
Ana Barros
Oct 18, 20211 min read
Womb transplants
A feature article in The Scientist has revealed how, in just a decade, research using animals made possible the first human-to-human...
Ana Barros
Sep 13, 20211 min read
Brain Prize 2021
The largest annual prize for neuroscience has been awarded to four scientists for their research on migraine studies, using animal...
Ana Barros
Mar 15, 20211 min read
Eye disease in rats
Research in rats, published during Glaucoma Awareness Month, suggests potential treatments for the eye condition. Scientists at...
Ana Barros
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Parkinsonโs dyskinesia drug
A new drug, which combats a side effect of a common Parkinsonโs disease treatment, is entering clinical trials after successful studies...
Ana Barros
Dec 7, 20201 min read
EARA/EFPIA response to antibody recommendation
A joint report by the European Animal Research Association (EARA) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 18, 20204 min read
Feature: The vital role of antibodies in biomedical research
Antibodies, the small proteins which form a critical part of our immune response to disease, are the unsung heroes of much biomedical...
Bob Tolliday
Sep 7, 20205 min read
Animal antibodies for Covid-19
A wide variety of animals are now being used to produce and understand the antibodies that can fight against Covid-19. Human bodies fight...
Ana Barros
Jun 22, 20201 min read
Sweden & France events
A free webinar, focusing on the activities of EARA, and hosted by the European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV) and the...
Ana Barros
Jun 15, 20201 min read
Challenging misleading information about malaria research
Peta have today started promoting a petition to end malaria research using monkeys at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The petition...
The European Animal Research Association
Mar 16, 20162 min read
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