top of page
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.
Other pages in this section explain more about EARA on social media and practical information for journalists.
Search
Animal research – a debate between a primate researcher and an opponent
A moderated debate between Prof. Stefan Treue, (pictured below) animal physiologist, neuroscientist and director of the German Primate...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 5, 20197 min read
Why Belgium still needs animal testing in the fight against cancer
In a piece first published in the Belgian news magazine Knack (in Dutch), Prof. Damya Laoui, from the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 28, 20194 min read
Vaccines Save Lives
The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls on European policymakers, health care workers and parents to increase vaccination efforts...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20194 min read
The peaceful but insidious tactics of animal rights groups in Portugal
This article was originally published by Inês S. Albuquerque on the Speaking of Research website. Speaking of Research aims to provide...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20195 min read
We aren’t sadists, but we do animal research
A group of young, ambitious Belgian scientists have had enough of standing by doing nothing while animal research is criticised in the...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20194 min read
Research with dogs develops an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes
White Coat Waste is a conservative animal rights organization devoted to the elimination of animal research. Its first target is...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20195 min read
Three cheers for China’s cloned monkeys
It’s likely that you have heard of ‘Dolly’ the sheep, famously announced as the first mammal ever to be successfully cloned, in February...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 8, 20193 min read
Opinion: Making sense of sentience
With a draft UK Animal Welfare Bill looking to put the concept of ‘animal sentience”directly into law and an ongoing debate about the...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 15, 20183 min read
A trans-Atlantic transparency gap on animal experiments
This article was originally published in Science on 14 July 2017 The launch last month of a website called LabAnimalTour.org, which...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 14, 20171 min read
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, 20163 min read
Panel Discussion: Effectiveness and reliability of alternative methods used for regulatory purposes
On December 1 of last year the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) celebrated its tenth anniversary...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 27, 20164 min read
European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing: 10 years of promoting development
The European Directive 2010/63 that protects animals required for scientific purposes was enforced in Member states in 2012. The...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 27, 20163 min read
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 19, 20154 min read
Amendments to the European Directive 2010/63 in Italy have a huge impact in my research
Riccardo Avvisati is a PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome, studying the influences of the environment on drug of abuse in a...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 12, 20153 min read
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
Aug 11, 20154 min read
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
Jul 27, 20157 min read
Why I do Animal Research – Lars Dittrich, PhD, Neurobiologist
Lately, I came across a number of campaigns that called for an end of animal research in Germany. Some had a factual appearance, like the...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 13, 20154 min read
Sometimes My Job Seems Like a Secret
This article was originally published by Amy Davidson BSc (Hons), MBA, RQAP-GLP. Amy is Vice President, Operations at Kingfisher...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 13, 20153 min read
bottom of page