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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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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
Missing mice in media coverage
Sloppy journalism is leading to a lack of transparency on the reporting of the use of animal models in Alzheimer’s research. A study by...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 21, 20211 min read
3Rs prize
Work on organoids that could replace the use of mice in some brain studies has won the UK’s major prize for non-animal methods in...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Space research with animals
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, are using zebrafish to understand how humans might be able to safely reach...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 7, 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
Getting vaccine facts straight
EARA has publicly challenged the false claims, about Covid-19 vaccine testing, made in the media by animal rights activists. In a letter...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 4, 20211 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
Opinion: Trying to make sense of animal sentience – the first task for the UK Parliament
The UK government’s proposal to legislate on what constitutes a ‘sentient being’ could create more problems than it solves. Ann Furedi,...
Bob Tolliday
May 20, 20214 min read
Depression & swimming mice
A new article highlights the importance of using animal models in the search for more effective antidepressant drugs. Currently,...
Ana Barros
May 10, 20211 min read
Leukaemia discovery
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, UK, have developed a new technique to kill cancer cells by targeting an enzyme believed to...
Bob Tolliday
May 3, 20211 min read
First effective jab for malaria
Researchers at the Jenner Institute of Oxford University, UK, have developed the first malaria vaccine that meets international standards...
Ana Barros
Apr 26, 20211 min read
Ricky Gervais
While international celebrity, and animal activist, Ricky Gervais has been happy to encourage people to take a Covid-19 jab, he has been...
Ana Barros
Apr 5, 20211 min read
Animals & Covid-19
As concerns grow over whether animals could continue to infect humans or other animals, Covid-19 researchers are seeking to identify...
Ana Barros
Mar 22, 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
EARA growth
The European Animal Research Association (EARA), founded just seven years ago, has recently become the biggest advocacy organisation on...
Ana Barros
Mar 8, 20211 min read
Fruit flies & cancer
A UK based start-up is to use fruit flies as cancer avatars to help identify personalised treatments for patients with the disease. Vivan...
Ana Barros
Mar 8, 20211 min read
New podcast - lab staff
A new podcast series from Imperial College London, UK, explores the experiences of lab staff at in its animal units, and the...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Apply for 3Rs prize
The deadline is approaching to apply for a £30,000 award for work that has had a major impact on the 3Rs in animal research. The annual...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 22, 20211 min read
China's ban on research monkey exports hits vaccine testing
An article has appeared in the Spanish publication Quo setting out the concerns of the European biomedical community about the current...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 18, 20216 min read
UK animal research ethics event
A free webinar addressing the legal and ethical issues around animal research in the UK takes place later this month. The UK Research...
Ana Barros
Feb 15, 20211 min read
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