Scientists in Europe must take more responsibility for openness, says EARA executive director
Openness and transparency surrounding the use of animals in research is ‘still an Achilles Heel’ for the biomedical sector, a roundtable...
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Bob Tolliday
- Nov 15, 2018
- 3 min
Supporting excellent biomedical science in Europe
The first FEAM European Biomedical Policy Forum annual lecture took place in Brussels, in March, dedicated to the topic Biomedical and...
Bob Tolliday
- Nov 11, 2018
- 2 min
Ebola vaccine in use thanks to ‘curiosity-driven’ basic research
There was no known widespread outbreaks of Ebola when the vaccine was developed 15 years ago using animals, says Kirk Leech, EARA...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 15, 2018
- 2 min
Nobel Prize awarded for turning the immune system against cancer
This year’s Nobel Prize winners for Physiology or Medicine used animal models to develop their novel cancer therapy. James P. Allison, of...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 31, 2016
- 4 min
Personhood for animals?
Animals are not capable of taking responsibility for their own actions, never mind having a say in how society is run, says EARA...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 15, 2016
- 1 min
Animal research & Downton Abbey
In one of the goriest scenes on television last year, Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey collapsed after violently coughing up blood all over...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 15, 2016
- 1 min
3D-printed structures successfully implanted into animals
Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have managed to 3D print structures made of living cells that were...
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 15, 2016
- 4 min
The Fight Against Zika Relies On Animal Research
This post was originally published on the website of the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) on January 28, 2016. It is republished...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 15, 2016
- 1 min
Environmental factors can improve reproducibility
At a meeting on improving mouse models of disease held last week at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, scientists and technicians...
The European Animal Research Association
- Mar 16, 2016
- 2 min
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Feb 12, 2016
- 1 min
Reducing animals in toxicity research with a new database
Scientists at John’s Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have developed a database compiling toxicity data of a large number of...
Bob Tolliday
- Jan 28, 2016
- 2 min
Заявление в поддержку Директивы 2010/63/EU
Заявление в поддержку Европейской Директивы 2010/63/EU (Директива) о защите животных, используемых в научных целях. Использование...
Bob Tolliday
- Jan 27, 2016
- 2 min
Nobel Prize 2015: using animal research to get rid of parasites
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine is shared between William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu, who contributed...
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Aug 11, 2015
- 4 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...
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...
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...
Bob Tolliday
- Jun 16, 2015
- 3 min
Good News on Fast Tracked Ebola Vaccine
The current Ebola outbreak is the worst the world has ever seen with 22,000 infections and 9,000 deaths recorded so far. The epidemic has...
Bob Tolliday
- May 15, 2015
- 8 min
Myth Busting: Stop Vivisection
In their most recent statement, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Stop Vivisection calls for a ‘new paradigm in biomedical...
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