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Bob Tolliday
Nov 15, 20182 min read
Scientists in Europe must take more responsibility for openness, says EARA executive director
Openness and transparency surrounding the use of animals in research is ‘still an Achilles Heel’ for the biomedical sector, a roundtable...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 15, 20183 min read
Supporting excellent biomedical science in Europe
The first FEAM European Biomedical Policy Forum annual lecture took place in Brussels, in March, dedicated to the topic Biomedical and...
Bob Tolliday
Nov 11, 20182 min read
Ebola vaccine in use thanks to ‘curiosity-driven’ basic research
There was no known widespread outbreaks of Ebola when the vaccine was developed 15 years ago using animals, says Kirk Leech, EARA...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20182 min read
Nobel Prize awarded for turning the immune system against cancer
This year’s Nobel Prize winners for Physiology or Medicine used animal models to develop their novel cancer therapy. James P. Allison, of...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 31, 20164 min read
Personhood for animals?
Animals are not capable of taking responsibility for their own actions, never mind having a say in how society is run, says EARA...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20161 min read
Animal research & Downton Abbey
In one of the goriest scenes on television last year, Lord Grantham of Downton Abbey collapsed after violently coughing up blood all over...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20161 min read
3D-printed structures successfully implanted into animals
Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have managed to 3D print structures made of living cells that were...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20163 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, 20164 min read
The Fight Against Zika Relies On Animal Research
This post was originally published on the website of the Foundation for Biomedical Research (FBR) on January 28, 2016. It is republished...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 15, 20161 min read
Environmental factors can improve reproducibility
At a meeting on improving mouse models of disease held last week at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge, scientists and technicians...
The European Animal Research Association
Mar 16, 20162 min read
Challenging misleading information about malaria research
Peta have today started promoting a petition to end malaria research using monkeys at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The petition...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 12, 20161 min read
Reducing animals in toxicity research with a new database
Scientists at John’s Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have developed a database compiling toxicity data of a large number of...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 28, 20162 min read
Заявление в поддержку Директивы 2010/63/EU
Заявление в поддержку Европейской Директивы 2010/63/EU (Директива) о защите животных, используемых в научных целях. Использование...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 27, 20162 min read
Nobel Prize 2015: using animal research to get rid of parasites
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine is shared between William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, and Youyou Tu, who contributed...
Bob Tolliday
Aug 19, 20154 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 11, 20154 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
Jul 27, 20157 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
Jun 16, 20155 min read
It’s All About the Animals
The following guest post is by Richard Marble RLATg, CMAR, Laboratory Animal Facility Coordinator at Ferris State University. In this...
Bob Tolliday
Jun 16, 20153 min read
Good News on Fast Tracked Ebola Vaccine
The current Ebola outbreak is the worst the world has ever seen with 22,000 infections and 9,000 deaths recorded so far. The epidemic has...
Bob Tolliday
May 15, 20158 min read
Myth Busting: Stop Vivisection
In their most recent statement, the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Stop Vivisection calls for a ‘new paradigm in biomedical...
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