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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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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
191 Research Institutions Sign Statement in Support of European Animal Research Legislation
London, UK 10th November 2015 191 organisations signed a statement published today by the European Animal Research Association (EARA) in...
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
Jan 27, 20162 min read
Statement from European Directive 2010/63/EU (“Directive”) the protection of animals used in Science
The use of animals in research has facilitated major breakthroughs in medicine which have transformed human and animal health. We support...
Bob Tolliday
Jan 27, 20161 min read
Statement in support of European Directive 2010/63 features in Lab Animal Europe
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) has published a statement on behalf of leading biomedical research organisations, learned...
Bob Tolliday
Dec 8, 20153 min read
Mitochondrial Donation: The Animal Research that Paved the Way
Earlier this month Britain become the first country in the world to permit mitochondrial donation to be used in treatment and help...
Bob Tolliday
Dec 8, 20151 min read
EARA welcomes B&K decision
Media Release London, 16 July 2015 Kirk Leech, Executive Director of the European Animal Research Association: “This is good news....
Bob Tolliday
Jul 6, 20154 min read
Pro-Test Deutschland: Yes to research in Germany!
Our peers at Pro-test Germany explain the mission of this recently launched advocacy organisation. Pro-Test Deutschland lends its voice...
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 25, 20152 min read
More than 120 organisations oppose ‘Stop Vivisection’ initiative
Media Release London, 4th March 2015 EARA joins research funders and organisations, learned societies and patient groups in a joint...
Bob Tolliday
May 19, 20151 min read
Stop Vivisection Public Hearing at the European Parliament
Last Monday 11th May the public hearing of the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Stop Vivisection’ was held at the European Parliament. ...
Bob Tolliday
Apr 9, 20153 min read
Activists Turn to EU to Ban Animal Research
There is a new effort to ban animal research in Europe. The Stop Vivisection European Citizens’ Initiative, and its 1.2 million...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 25, 20152 min read
‘Politically-motivated’ campaign against Green Hill in Italy condemned by EARA
London, 25 March 2015 Green Hill facility in Montichiari (Italy) persecuted for breeding dogs for scientific research Case re-opened...
Bob Tolliday
Mar 22, 20151 min read
Understanding research involving animals and the alternatives
A joint open meeting, hosted by Ms Vicky Ford MEP and Dr Cristian Busoi MEP, at the European Parliament, in Brussels, in January 2015,...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 23, 20154 min read
Keep Research Flying
The following guest post by Kirk Leech originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Mr. Leech is the Executive Director of the European...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 13, 20152 min read
Why heart research on dogs is required
The European Animal Research Association (EARA) supports the use of experimental animals when no other alternative is possible. The...
Bob Tolliday
Feb 13, 20155 min read
Neuroscience research on macaques at the Max Planck Institute, Tubingen (MPI): A reply to the BUAV
The Chief Executive of the BUAV, Michelle Thew, has written to the European Animal Research Association (EARA) over comments on our...
Bob Tolliday
Oct 2, 20144 min read
A response to Jane Goodall: Why we need to keep research flying
Kirk Leech, Executive Director, writes a response to Jane Goodall, explaining the importance of allowing the transportation of animals...
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