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3Rs grant for Belgian university
EARA member Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has been awarded a €250,000 grant to promote alternative methods to animal testing. The...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Animals in neuroscience research
Insights into the use of monkeys and mice in neuroscience research have been highlighted in a video produced by EARA member Ernst...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Lizards & skin cancer
A rare breed of gecko may hold answers about how skin cancer in humans and mammals. The lemon-frost yellow leopard gecko was observed by...
Ana Barros
Jul 12, 20211 min read
Dissolvable pacemakers
US scientists have developed a dissolvable pacemaker, that offers a short-term solution for patients recovering from heart surgery. The...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 5, 20211 min read
Initiative Transparente Tierversuche startet
DFG und „Tierversuche verstehen“ setzen sich für transparente Information und offene Kommunikation über Tierversuche in der Forschung ein...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Portuguese transparency report 2020
The first annual report of biomedical institutions in Portugal, examining how they discuss the use of animals in research, shows...
Ana Barros
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Transparency Agreement in Germany launched
More than 50 German universities, research centres and companies today signed a transparency agreement on animal research, with a...
Bob Tolliday
Jul 1, 20213 min read
Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 - partner organisations & statements
The Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 initiative (#BOARD21) was supported by 85 partners across 22 countries. To be a partner,...
Ana Barros
Jul 1, 20211 min read
Be Open About Animal Research Day - #TransparencyThursday Q&As
EARA's #TransparencyThursday, which features regularly on our Instagram feed (and also on YouTube) is an initiative that allows the...
Ana Barros
Jul 1, 20211 min read
Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 - live events
To celebrate Be Open About Animal Research Day 2021 (#BOARD21), institutions in Brazil and Spain organised live events, to talk about...
Ana Barros
Jul 1, 20211 min read
Get ready for Get on #BOARD21
On Thursday, a 24-hour social media campaign, involving 1,000 biomedical institutions across the world, will celebrate proactive...
Ana Barros
Jun 29, 20213 min read
Updated diet for lab rodents
Concerns about the diet of mice and rats and the effect this has on research results, has led to sweeping new recommendations by US...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 28, 20211 min read
mRNA malaria vaccine
Scientists have developed an effective vaccine against malaria, using the mRNA technology first seen in the successful Covid-19 vaccines....
Bob Tolliday
Jun 28, 20211 min read
New Culture of Care publications
The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) has published a leaflet outlining the importance of...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 28, 20211 min read
Antibodies for dogs
Scientists at the UK firm PetMedix, have created a system which could help make better potential new antibody medicines for dogs. In...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 21, 20211 min read
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
Pollution & dementia
Scientists from the University of California, Davis, USA, have found a link between air pollution and a higher risk of developing...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 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
Antibody drug & Covid-19
The EU has purchased 55,000 doses of a monoclonal antibody treatment for Covid-19, which significantly reduces the hospitalisation of...
Ana Barros
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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