August 12, 2025: Podcast of the France Inter noon debate: “Can We Do Without Animal Testing?”
Featuring Roland Cash, physician, pharmacologist, and vice president of Transcience; André Ménache, veterinarian and scientific advisor to Antidote Europe; Virginia Mouseler, founding president of “Beagles of Burgundy”; Ivan Balansard, veterinarian at the CNRS “Ethics and Animal Models” office and president of Gircor (42 min): Can We Do Without Animal Testing? | France Inter
May 24, 2025: France Culture’s morning podcast on primate breeding for research in France
Interview with Roland Cash, physician and vice president of the Transcience association (9 min): Primate Breeding for Research in France | France Culture
April 25, 2024: podcast of “La science, CQFD”, on France Culture: “Organoïdes: silence, ça puce!”, with
- Xavier Gidrol Director, Biomics Laboratory, Grenoble
- Stéphanie Descroix CNRS Research Director and Team Leader at the Institut Curie
To listen (59 min) : Click here
March 12, 2024: Program on RCF Alsace: “Organoids, a tool to replace animal experimentation”.
For some years now, bio-medical research has been using organoid models, 3D in vitro objects that resemble mini-organ systems. But are they really good models, and can they really be used without any ethical limits?
Guests: Caroline SPENLÉ, Senior Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg; Céline BRAÏNI, Researcher at the Institut du médicament de Strasbourg and INOVARION®.
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November 30, 2023: “La Terre au carré” program on France Inter: “L’expérimentation animale : peut-on s’en passer ?” (Animal experimentation: can we do without it?).
Many associations denounce the suffering that is part and parcel of animal experimentation. Can we do without it, and how can we encourage the use of alternative methods?
Debate with : Audrey Jougla, Animal Testing; Muriel Arnal, One Voice; Ivan Balansard, Gircor.
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April 13, 2023: “Legal aspects of alternative methods to animal experimentation” video
byAloïse Quesne, Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Evry Paris-Saclay, co-director of the Master 1 in Health Law and director of the One Health – Une seule santé legal clinic.
As part of the symposium “L’expérimentation animale aujourd’hui… et demain?”, organized by the Société de Biologie under the scientific direction of Georges Chapouthier, on April 18, 2023 at the Institut Curie.
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July 9, 2021: Sandrine Rousseau’s “A Coeur Battant” podcast
who talks to Muriel Obriet, President of Transcience, about the use of animals for scientific purposes.
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July 1, 2019: “Black, White and Vivisection” video:
An interview with Dr. Ray Greek by Ricky Gervais.
To watch the video (31 minutes, in English): Click here
December 12, 2017: France Inter program:
Title: “Animal Testing: Essential to Science?”
L’Édito carré by Mathieu Vidard (2 minutes).
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