An easy solution to animal testing are the numerous alternatives that are already available:
• Organs on a chip:
This was created by Harvard’s Wyss Institute. The idea is to contain human cells grown in a high-tech system to imitate the structures and functions of the body systems and organs (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1). The chips can be used to replace animal testing in areas of disease research and drug testing, it has also been shown to duplicate human anatomy, infections, and drug responses more accurately than animal experiments do (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1). Some companies, such as the HµRel Corporation, turned these chips into products that other researchers can use to replace testing on animals (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1)
• Human-Patient Simulators:
These simulators breathe, bleed, convulse and even feels pain like we humans do. The most advanced simulators imitate diseases and illnesses of the human body and gives accurate biological response to medical treatment of the disease (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1). Animal laboratories in medical school across the United States have significantly declined and has been replaced with the use of Human-Patient-Simulators, as well as virtual-reality systems, computer simulators, and supervised clinical experience …show more content…
The doses are too small to cause adverse reactions in the volunteer (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 2). This is done to provide vital information on the safety of an experimental drug and how it is processed by humans prior to large-scale human trials. This can be used to replace multiple tests carried out on animals and also help eliminate drugs that won’t work on humans, so that scientists can save their time and government can save their money for more beneficial purposes (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty
• Organs on a chip:
This was created by Harvard’s Wyss Institute. The idea is to contain human cells grown in a high-tech system to imitate the structures and functions of the body systems and organs (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1). The chips can be used to replace animal testing in areas of disease research and drug testing, it has also been shown to duplicate human anatomy, infections, and drug responses more accurately than animal experiments do (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1). Some companies, such as the HµRel Corporation, turned these chips into products that other researchers can use to replace testing on animals (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1)
• Human-Patient Simulators:
These simulators breathe, bleed, convulse and even feels pain like we humans do. The most advanced simulators imitate diseases and illnesses of the human body and gives accurate biological response to medical treatment of the disease (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 1). Animal laboratories in medical school across the United States have significantly declined and has been replaced with the use of Human-Patient-Simulators, as well as virtual-reality systems, computer simulators, and supervised clinical experience …show more content…
The doses are too small to cause adverse reactions in the volunteer (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty 2). This is done to provide vital information on the safety of an experimental drug and how it is processed by humans prior to large-scale human trials. This can be used to replace multiple tests carried out on animals and also help eliminate drugs that won’t work on humans, so that scientists can save their time and government can save their money for more beneficial purposes (“Alternatives to Animal Testing” Cruelty