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12 lut 2020 · Animal testing, a scientist’s opinion. Interview with Maurice Whelan, head of EURL ECVAM (European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM) at the JRC (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) in Ispra, Italy.
For some types of research, animals must be engineered to have or lack certain genes (or the proteins made by these genes) in order to determine what role a gene and its protein might play in disease development. This is not possible to do in humans for legal, ethical, and scientific reasons.
12 lut 2020 · Animal testing, a scientist’s opinion. Interview with Professor PierFranco Conte, Full Professor of Oncology at the University of Padova and Director of the Division of Medical Oncology 2 at the Istituto Oncologico Veneto in Padova.
19 sie 2022 · Regulatory animal experiments are demanded as part of the medicine and vaccine development process. Pharmaceutical companies typically test their medicinal products following a tripartite testing procedure: preclinical, clinical (Phase I, II and III) and post-marketing surveillance.
Animal testing plays an important role in the development of medicine and broader scientific research. However, the practice has been coming under growing scrutiny in recent years. The European Union and Dutch government aim to lead the way with animal-free alternatives.
10 maj 2023 · Animal testing contributes to life-saving cures and treatments for humans and animals alike. Nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals, according to the California Biomedical Research Association.
There are several reasons why the use of animals is critical for biomedical research: • Animals are biologically very similar to humans. In fact, mice share more than 98% DNA with us! • Animals are susceptible to many of the same health problems as humans – cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc.
