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1 paź 2019 · Do you think animal testing is ever justified? If so, what should be the criteria for when, how and on what animals testing is done?
1 sie 2023 · Such significant failures in clinical trials raise the question: what scientific evidence do we have that animal tests are the best way to predict and protect human health? It is about time the paradigm of animal testing as a “gold standard” in medicine was challenged, researched, and re-evaluated.
This web page explains the legal, ethical, and scientific reasons for using animals in research. It also gives examples of experiments that cannot be done in humans or are not possible without animal models.
Animal experimentation has played a central role in biomedical research throughout history. For centuries, however, it has also been an issue of heated public and philosophical discussion.
19 sie 2022 · This article reflects on the role that specific public health disasters played in the creation of (more) regulatory requirements for animal testing. It will show how the regulatory changes prompted by the sulfanilamide elixir disaster in the 1930s and the thalidomide disaster in the early 1960s were based on the belief that extensive animal ...
New methods. Animal welfare activists have long insisted that researchers jettison research on animals for alternative methods, such as human stem cells grown in a dish, computer modelling, or expanded clinical trials.
4 lis 2022 · The FDA proposes to use cutting-edge methods such as stem cells, organs-on-a-chip and artificial intelligence to replace or reduce animal use in drug development. The shift would be based on the best science and the need for more relevant and efficient testing.
