Blog | European Animal Research Association

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.

FOLLOW US ON X

German research institute counters activist protests

A proactive campaign by EARA member the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), has made a determined response to a large protest, conducted by...

The European Animal Research Association

Jul 12, 20243 min read

EARA Q&A – developing microelectrodes for the monkey brain

The latest episode of our #TransparencyThursday series features Ivânia Trêpo, a PhD student at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Gege Li

Jul 8, 20241 min read

Swiss 3Rs centre announces annual awardees

The Swiss 3RCC has announced the recipients of its annual awards, recognising outstanding contributions to the 3Rs of animal research.

Nuno Gonçalves

Jul 8, 20241 min read

Progress in treating tuberculosis

Recent animal research has led to new developments in the detection and treatment of the infectious disease tuberculosis (TB).

Gege Li

Jul 8, 20242 min read

Mice study offers new hope for skin disease

Research from the UK using genetic therapy and mice studies has uncovered a potential treatment to reverse a rare skin disease....

Nuno Gonçalves

Jul 1, 20241 min read

Rehoming lab rats in New Zealand

An article in Cosmos Magazine has looked at some of the rehoming initiatives for rats that have previously been used in biomedical...

Gege Li

Jul 1, 20242 min read

Understanding ageing with blood stem cells

Stem cells, that develop into blood cells, age differently in individual mice, a US study has found, providing new insights into how this...

Gege Li

Jul 1, 20241 min read

5% of animal studies lead to human treatments – failure or success?

A scientific review of the progress of animal studies through to human trials and drug development, which showed that just one in 20...

Nuno Gonçalves

Jun 24, 20243 min read

Rodent teeth insights for human dentistry?

Researchers in Germany have studied the tooth structure of seven different rodent species and found a material that is key to the...

Gege Li

Jun 24, 20241 min read

Explaining sex differences in pain

Males and females differ in their experience of pain due to differences in specialised nerve cells, a recent US study in mice, monkeys...

Gege Li

Jun 24, 20241 min read

31 3234 35