If we didn t test on animals, how would we conduct medical research?
Human clinical and epidemiological studies, cadavers and computer simulators are faster, more reliable, less expensive and more humane than animal tests. Ingenious scientists have developed, from human brain cells, a model microbrain with which to study tumours, as well as artificial skin and bone marrow. We can now test irritancy on egg membranes, produce vaccines from cell cultures and perform pregnancy tests using blood samples instead of killing rabbits. As Gordon Baxter, co-founder of Pharmagene Laboratories (a company that uses only human tissues and computers to develop and test drugs) says, If you have information on human genes, what s the point of going back to animals?
