EARA’s second webinar, “The Role of Veterinarians in Animal Research”, held on 27 January 2026 for almost 800 live participants, brought together veterinarians from Europe and North America to explore the central role veterinarians play in animal welfare, scientific quality and public trust.  

Researchers in the US have developed a pill in pigs that sends a signal when it’s swallowed and could help doctors monitor if patients take their pills according to their prescription.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first at-home, non-invasive brain stimulation device to treat depression.  

Researchers in the US have discovered that vitamin C may protect reproductive health in fish from an emerging environmental contaminant widely used in industry and explosives.  

Research from the US suggests primate gut microbes influence brain-related gene activity in mice, indicating a potential role in the evolution of large brains. 

Researchers in the US have identified a specific brain circuit in rats that drives relapse following opioid use, with light-based stimulation mimicking this pathway, significantly reducing addictive behaviour.

Researchers in the US created a detailed atlas showing how astrocytes, star-shaped support cells in the brain, differ across brain regions, animal species and life stages. The atlas will help to understand how these cells influence brain development, function and disease.

Research from the US shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately predict how proteins interact with one another.

A study in the US used pigs as a model for a common liver complication caused by intravenous feeding in premature babies. 

Research from the US shows that a new lymph-node-on-a-chip can replicate age-dependent immune responses to cancer vaccines, providing a more accurate testing platform. 

A US study has discovered that African chimpanzees routinely consume alcohol naturally present in overripe fruit that, given the size of their bodies, would be equivalent to having two drinks a day, suggesting that human addiction to alcohol has an evolutionary root.

In November, EARA advanced its mission on three major international stages — the AALAS National Meeting (Long Beach, USA), the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (San Diego, USA) and the SECAL National Congress (Bilbao, Spain) — putting patient engagement, openness and responsible communication at the centre of global discussions on animal research. 

A US study has developed a technology using rats and pigs that can stimulate the immune system to heal the heart after a heart attack.  

A recent opinion article in The Transmitter by US neuroscientists Cory Miller, from the University of California, San Diego, J. Anthony Movshon, from New York University, and Doris Tsao, from the University of California, Berkeley, raised concerns over the recent policy changes in Europe and the US that would scale back animal research – including in primates.  

Scientists in the US have discovered how the brain can recover from a distraction to return to the task at hand, in a study using monkeys.  

Researchers in the US have identified a previously unknown brain circuit that controls how mice respond to sudden threats and recover from fear. 

Two comment articles with opposite perspectives about the role of animals in biomedical research have been featured in Nature.

Researchers in the US have developed lab-grown kidneys (organoids) that, for the first time, could produce urine when transplanted into mice.  

Researchers in the US have found that amyloid beta, a hallmark in Alzheimer’s, can strengthen immune responses and reduce tumour growth in mice. 

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers — Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell — for discovering how the immune system is kept in check, based on studies in mice.