Biological implications:
There are many positive and negative biological implications. Organisations experiment on vertebrate animals because of their similar nervous system to ours. Meaning that if the animals feel pain from the drug humans are more likely too feel pain too. Although from saying that animals and humans are never exactly the same making the experiment unreliable. Testing on animals can cause suffering and death. Suffering is important and essential and is always present even if it is minimised. Human bodies are a lot more complex and different than animals; for example, our metabolic, genetic and molecular levels. When a drug is developed, it must be tested on an entire living system. Animals are believed to be the wrong living …show more content…
Computer models that stimulate human biology and the progression of developing diseases have been created to predicts the ways new drugs will react in a human body. Human volunteers can be used to provide information on how the drug is metabolised in humans before large-scale human trials. Volunteers are given an extremely small dose of the drug once, and then is monitored to see the effects. There are also positive biological implications. Animal testing does help ensure the safety of a drug. Making it one step closer to be safely used on humans. Even though there are alternative ways, these methods do not always simulate humans in the same way. Meaning they aren’t always the perfect method and sometimes do require animal testing. Organisations that use animal testing have sometimes minimised inter-species variation. Done by using transgenic animals genetically altered to replicate human physiology more. Animal testing is needed and positive when humans are impossible to test on and there is no other alternative that will biologically help. At this point in time, no safe alternative exist that will fully eliminate the risk of species differences. Alternatives are being used but will not be able to replace animals until there is an
There are many positive and negative biological implications. Organisations experiment on vertebrate animals because of their similar nervous system to ours. Meaning that if the animals feel pain from the drug humans are more likely too feel pain too. Although from saying that animals and humans are never exactly the same making the experiment unreliable. Testing on animals can cause suffering and death. Suffering is important and essential and is always present even if it is minimised. Human bodies are a lot more complex and different than animals; for example, our metabolic, genetic and molecular levels. When a drug is developed, it must be tested on an entire living system. Animals are believed to be the wrong living …show more content…
Computer models that stimulate human biology and the progression of developing diseases have been created to predicts the ways new drugs will react in a human body. Human volunteers can be used to provide information on how the drug is metabolised in humans before large-scale human trials. Volunteers are given an extremely small dose of the drug once, and then is monitored to see the effects. There are also positive biological implications. Animal testing does help ensure the safety of a drug. Making it one step closer to be safely used on humans. Even though there are alternative ways, these methods do not always simulate humans in the same way. Meaning they aren’t always the perfect method and sometimes do require animal testing. Organisations that use animal testing have sometimes minimised inter-species variation. Done by using transgenic animals genetically altered to replicate human physiology more. Animal testing is needed and positive when humans are impossible to test on and there is no other alternative that will biologically help. At this point in time, no safe alternative exist that will fully eliminate the risk of species differences. Alternatives are being used but will not be able to replace animals until there is an