Innovative therapy treats fatal skin disease
A patient with a life-threatening skin disease has been successfully treated following research that combined the use of mice, artificial...
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Nuno Gonçalves
Jul 81 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.
Gege Li
Jul 12 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...
Nuno Gonçalves
Jun 243 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
May 201 min read
Better blood thinning medication
Research from Switzerland and Australia, using tsetse flies, has uncovered a new way to prevent blood clotting that can also be easily...
Gege Li
Apr 151 min read
Swiss university hub to improve research animal welfare
ETH Zurich has recently launched an initiative that brings together its activities and knowledge on the 3Rs principles, to establish...
Gege Li
Mar 181 min read
Could an animal studies dataset help reduce their use?
After sifting through vast numbers of research studies that used animals, scientists believe they have a basic set of data that could...
Nuno Gonçalves
Feb 51 min read
Reducing stress in mice in drug testing
Scientists at EARA Member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a new method of giving drugs to mice for research...
Gege Li
Feb 51 min read
Virus discovered to fight antibiotic resistance
The discovery of a virus, that kills ‘sleeping’ bacteria, may be another key player in the fight against antibiotic resistance, a Swiss...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 151 min read
Swiss institutions publish first openness report
The Swiss Transparency Agreement on Animal Research (STAAR) has published its first annual report recording progress on open...
Gege Li
Dec 20, 20232 min read
2023 openness in animal research – EARA videos
Many researchers contributed to the EARA Instagram #TransparencyThursday Q&A series in 2023 (now on the EARA YouTube channel) where...
Gege Li
Dec 20, 20231 min read
EARA News Digest top stories of 2023
Here is a selection of the most-read research stories in the EARA News Digest this year: In January, EARA member the University of...
Nuno Gonçalves
Nov 12, 20231 min read
Monkey research leads to revolutionary Parkinson's treatment
Animal research has paved the way for a spinal implant that has given a 62-year-old man with Parkinson's disease the ability to walk...
Gege Li
Oct 23, 20231 min read
Swiss university prizes for non-animal methods
The UZH 3Rs Award, newly introduced by EARA member the University of Zurich, Switzerland, which highlights its researcher's advances in...
Gege Li
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Research reduces animal use in gene editing
An innovative gene editing process can reduce the number of animal experiments needed to study complex genetic diseases, according to...
The European Animal Research Association
Sep 11, 202311 min read
500 biomedical institutions in Europe have signed a National Transparency Agreement
The need to foster open and transparent communication with the general public, about the benefits to society of using animals in...
Gege Li
Sep 11, 20231 min read
Bladder cancer insights from cats & dogs
Studies on pet cats and dogs, with natural bladder cancer, have revealed important gene mutations, shared with humans which may lead to...
Gege Li
Sep 11, 20231 min read
Brain model awarded Swiss 3Rs prize
The Swiss 3Rs Competence Centre has awarded its 3Rs Young Investigators Award to a scientist developing ways to study the brain’s...
Nuno Gonçalves
Sep 11, 20231 min read
Brain cell discovery in mice
A new way of communicating between different types of brain cells has been identified in mice. The discovery, by researchers at the...
Gege Li
Aug 29, 20231 min read
Treating diabetes with music
Cells engineered to release insulin at the sound of rock music may become a new treatment for diabetes, a study in mice has found....
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