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Scientists in Europe must take more responsibility for openness, says EARA executive director

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...

Supporting excellent biomedical science in Europe

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...

Ebola vaccine in use thanks to ‘curiosity-driven’ basic research

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...

Nobel Prize awarded for turning the immune system against cancer

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...

3D-printed structures successfully implanted into animals

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...

On Lab Animal Day, Belgian science unites in support of animal research

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...

The Fight Against Zika Relies On Animal Research

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...

Environmental factors can improve reproducibility

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...

Challenging misleading information about malaria research

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...

Reducing animals in toxicity research with a new database

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...

Заявление в поддержку Директивы 2010/63/EU

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...

Nobel Prize 2015: using animal research to get rid of parasites

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...

Why People Are Wrong to Oppose the New UK Beagle Breeding Facility

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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