German #AnimalResearch is more #transparent than ZDF #documentary suggests 🇩🇪
The @ZDF’s documentary “Geheimsache Tierversuche” gives the #misleading impression that #German #researchers are secretive about work with #animals. Researchers using #macaques, #marmosets and #mice from @uni-muenster.de and @uni-bremen.de say otherwise, and 130+ signatories back the German #TransparencyAgreement.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/german-animal-r…
#Transparency
Last call: What Does #AnimalResearch Really Look Like? ⏰
EARA’s fourth #webinar is next #Tuesday, 27 Oct, 15:00–16:30 CET, #online. #Free but mandatory #registration. #Certificates of attendance issued after the #webinar.
Learn more: 🔗 shorturl.at/094G3
Easy-access #therapeutic #food recovers #rats from #malnutrition 🐀
@HebrewU created a plant-based therapeutic #food from locally available ingredients that reversed #malnutrition in #rats, targeting regions like sub-Saharan #Africa.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/easy-access-the…
#AnimalResearch #ChildHealth
Industry #survey challenges the 90% failure rate of #AnimalTests in #DrugDevelopment 💊
An IQ Consortium #survey of 45 pharma #companies found 98% use #cell models and 84% use #computer models in early development, so progression to #HumanTrials relies on multiple approaches, not just #AnimalStudies.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/industry-survey…
#AnimalResearch #NAMs #DrugDevelopment
EARA Conference 2027: Animal research or new approaches? A battle for public trust
📅 4–5 Nov 2027, Lisbon
Secure your sponsorship: 12 exhibition spaces, limited Industry Session slots, first-confirmed.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/projects/eara-confer…
#AnimalResearch #EARAConference2027
Modified drug reduces endometriosis symptoms in mice 🐭
@WSUPullman researchers modified a drug used for parasitic infections, cutting pain sensitivity and endometriosis-like lesions – a potential alternative to hormone therapy.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/modified-drug-r…
#AnimalResearch #Endometriosis
#AnimalResearch is often misrepresented #online. 🐀
This video from @iCBR_FMUC shows a refinement procedure in a #rat. 📸
#Submit your #videos and #images to EARA's #MediaBank and help us change the wrong #perceptions about what #AnimalResearch looks like.
🔗 eara.eu/transparency/media-b…
Let's change this picture!
#WhatARLooksLike
EARA brings #researchers together to discuss #AnimalResearch in #Germany
EARA and @OVGUpresse brought around 50 #researchers together to discuss openness on #AnimalResearch, including non-human primate studies.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/eara-brings-res…
#NHP #Openness
African green #monkeys show promise for research into the early stages of #Alzheimer’s
@Yale #researchers found no #memory decline in #monkeys a year after exposure to synthetic Aβ clusters, despite persistent #brain changes.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/african-green-m…
#NHP #AnimalResearch
To make lab-grown #brain tissue behave like a #brain, you have to put it in an #animal
On @Stanford research: #HumanBrain #organoids transplanted into #animals develop characteristics the lab alone cannot reproduce.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/to-make-lab-gro…
#AnimalResearch #NAMs
What Does #AnimalResearch Really Look Like?
#Speakers for EARA’s 27 Oct #webinar: Susanne Diederich (@DPZ_eu), Michaela Thallmair (@UZH_en), Jamie Yuan (UAR) and Jordan Clark (@JoVEJournal), on #images, #video and #VirtualTours.
Learn more: 🔗 shorturl.at/094G3
#AnimalResearch is often misrepresented #online. 🐀
This image from Radboud University shows a #mouse in #BrainResearch. 📸 Radboud University
#Submit your images to EARA's #MediaBank and help us change the wrong #perceptions about what #AnimalResearch looks like.
🔗 eara.eu/transparency/media-b…
Let's change this picture! #WhatARLooksLike
Xtalks #webinar series examines the role of #monkeys in #TranslationalResearch
Bioculture Group and EARA partner with @Xtalks on a four-part #webinar series on the responsible use of non-human primates in #research. The 1st session explored how #NHP #studies have contributed to #medical progress and how they can inform #ClinicalResearch.
Next session: 14 December.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/xtalks-webinar-…
#NonHumanPrimates #3Rs
What Does #AnimalResearch Really Look Like?
Join EARA’s #webinar! Photos of #AnimalResearch are often outdated or out of context. Speakers share how #institutions provide #accurate visual #material.
📅 27 Oct, 15:00–16:30 CET, online
Learn more: 🔗 shorturl.at/094G3
#Spain supports the use of #AnimalsInResearch
A @Fundacion_BBVA poll found that one in two people in #Spain supports the use of #animals in research. 16% see it as no problem and 34% as a minor one.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/spain-supports-…
#AnimalResearch #PublicOpinion
EARA retweeted
🏆 IIMCB researchers recognised for their mRNA research published in Nature!
❓Why do mRNA vaccines remain active in cells for longer and work more effectively?
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Improving Openness in #AnimalResearch in #Germany
Yesterday in #Magdeburg, EARA’s Executive Director @kirk_EARA spoke on connecting #AnimalResearch and #patients and moderating the panel at the @OVGUpresse workshop.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/events/improving-ope…
#AnimalResearch #Openness
Diagnosis of patients with a rare disease using flies and AI
Researchers from @BCMHouston used #AI to flag a rare BRSK1 #gene alteration. Studies in #FruitFlies showed the #gene is involved in communication between #neurones.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/diagnosis-of-pa…
#AnimalResearch #RareDiseases
From #algae to #animals: #NobelPrize awarded for technique to #study the #brain
#NobelPrize for #Optogenetics: Deisseroth (@Stanford @hhminews), Hegemann and Nagel. Light switched on neurones in living mice.
Learn more: 🔗 eara.eu/news/from-algae-to-a…
#Neuroscience #AnimalResearch