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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.
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Hair loss in mice
A study led by scientists from the EARA members the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing,...
Ana Barros
Oct 19, 20201 min read
Antibodies & tumours
Researchers, including EARA member the University of Zurich, have found a potential new treatment for aggressive brain tumours, using...
Ana Barros
Oct 19, 20201 min read
EARA media training workshops
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) will hold four online media training sessions in November, with the support of the...
Bob Tolliday
Oct 8, 20201 min read
EU and animal research
With activists calling for a new roadmap to end animal research, a senior Commission official has emphasised that a phase out of testing...
Ana Barros
Sep 9, 20203 min read
Antibodies against neurological diseases
Researchers from EARA members the University of Zurich and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland, have found human...
Ana Barros
Aug 24, 20201 min read
Personality changes in zebrafish
German scientists have shown, that by selective breeding of zebrafish, distinct personality traits occur both in behaviour and also brain...
Ana Barros
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Sex & fruit flies
Scientists in Portugal have found key behaviours that trigger the transition from courtship to mating in fruit flies (see video). The...
Ana Barros
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Mice & immune cell development
Researchers from EARA member Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, have found key details about how our immune system develops....
Ana Barros
Aug 10, 20201 min read
Flatfish skin diseases
Belgian researchers have developed a lab model of flatfish skin to understand a recent unexplained increase in skin ulcers. Flatfish,...
Ana Barros
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Dogs & Covid-19
Researchers at EARA member the University of Helsinki, Finland, have successfully trained dogs to detect Covid-19 in human samples using...
Ana Barros
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Visit us at FENS
EARA will be among the exhibitors at the online FENS Forum 2020, starting this Saturday. Visit us at the Consortium for Public Outreach...
Ana Barros
Jul 6, 20201 min read
Virtual lab tours
With in-person laboratory tours impossible at present, virtual tours to engage with the public are showing their value. An article in The...
Ana Barros
Jun 29, 20201 min read
Swiss advocacy group rebrands
EARA Member, the Basel Declaration Society, based in Switzerland, has rebranded as Animal Research Tomorrow. The organisation now has a...
Ana Barros
Jun 22, 20201 min read
Animal research comms in Belgium & Netherlands
EARA member Infopoint Animal Testing (IPPO), based in Belgium, has launched an informative booklet (only available in Dutch) on...
Ana Barros
Jun 15, 20201 min read
Sweden & France events
A free webinar, focusing on the activities of EARA, and hosted by the European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV) and the...
Ana Barros
Jun 15, 20201 min read
Covid-19 virus reveals the need for animal testing
This article is reprinted from Yleisradio Oy, Finland's national public broadcasting company, featuring an interview with Emrah Yatkin,...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 5, 20203 min read
EARA at FENS
EARA will be hosting a live-streamed Special Interest Event at the first ever online conference of the Federation of European...
Ana Barros
Jun 1, 20201 min read
Zebrafish & regenerative medicine
Two separate studies, using zebrafish, are helping to give greater insights into how cells regrow in different parts of the body. At...
Ana Barros
May 26, 20201 min read
Research dog welfare
EARA member Covance Laboratories, along with Novo Nordisk, have collaborated to enhance the design of cages to house dogs used in drug...
Ana Barros
May 18, 20201 min read
Responses needed for survey on rodent surgery
Swiss researchers are looking for responses to a survey looking at the challenges and pitfalls of experimental surgery in rodents. The...
Ana Barros
May 11, 20201 min read
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