Progress on a better alternative to animal testing
/Medicine depends on animal testing to assess drug safety and efficacy. The problem is that animal tests often fail to predict clinical responses. This means drugs that look pr...
Read MoreCould This "Human Body on a Chip" Replace Rodent Models?
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Some 60%-90% of drugs that are successful in rodents… fail in humans. However, researchers at Harvard University and Tel Aviv University have developed a new model that might ...
Read MoreEPA to Eliminate All Mammal Testing by 2035
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It can be said that cancer has been cured dozens of times over in mice. Oftentimes though, the results obtained in the lab aren’t translatable to humans with the same conditio...
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