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Over the last century, animal welfare advocates have protested the rising use of animals in biomedical research and, later, in drug, chemical, and cosmetic testing. One 2008 study estimated 115 million animals are used a year for scientific research alone. Agree with the cause or not, their reasons are well understood to anyone who has felt a little sad about that frog dissection in middle school.
But lately the movement to end animal testing has drawn some more surprising bedfellows. Scientific researchers, regulators like the FDA, and even the military are realizing the current paradigm of using animals as proxies for human beings is broken. Instead, they’re working to develop technologies that could eliminate or drastically reduce the use of animals in favor of more accurate, efficient, and (by default) kinder alternatives.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033574/...-on-a-chip-that-will-change-how-we-make-drugs
But lately the movement to end animal testing has drawn some more surprising bedfellows. Scientific researchers, regulators like the FDA, and even the military are realizing the current paradigm of using animals as proxies for human beings is broken. Instead, they’re working to develop technologies that could eliminate or drastically reduce the use of animals in favor of more accurate, efficient, and (by default) kinder alternatives.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033574/...-on-a-chip-that-will-change-how-we-make-drugs