Animal test failure

These claims gradually disappeared under review. Leading research scientists continue to emphasize the need for more valuable human data in vaccine development.

This is because attempts to create animal-based models with significant similarities to human COVID-19 for research are widely known but failed.

Scientists strive to use mice and monkeys to generate data that matches what human COVID patients see.

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instead, The root of the real progress in COVID vaccine development is the human-specific research method based on human cell 3D culture and calculation methods.

The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee recently acknowledged that non-animal methods have been successful in discovering more information about COVID and are critical in identifying new therapies for the disease.

Overall, this year’s data shows that the scientific community continues to rely on outdated methods, and anyone who cares about animals and good science will find this shocking.

E.g, The number of experiments with dogs (3%), cats (11%), rabbits (11%) and horses (3%) has increased. In the past ten years alone, the number of horse experiments has increased by 29%.

The use of rhesus monkeys increased by 77%, and they participated in 2,400 experiments with other monkeys. Many of them are imported from Asia and Africa.

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Approximately 86,000 procedures are classified as causing “serious” suffering to the animals involved. Although there is a large amount of data in the scientific literature that shows significant differences between species, most of this research focuses on cancer and the immune and nervous system, so you cannot reliably apply animal data to these and other fields. Humanity.

If there is any consistent and sustained effort to reduce the use of animals in British science, we will not see these increases, which makes sense.

Recently announced data Public Health England (PHE) owns four research parks, showing that one of their sites used 137 monkeys. In 2020, a total of more than 6,300 animals will be used for experiments-44% more than the previous year (2019).

For example, these experiments involve developing new COVID-19 animal “models” to test vaccines, exposing animals to X-ray radiation (including eyes) to induce tumors, and exposing animals to diesel exhaust to cause lung disease.

However, all of these research fields have advanced, human-specific, humane technology and clinical research that can directly provide human-related data.

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The British public and more and more scientists are frustrated that they know that better research science can and should become the gold standard. This is unprecedented and more and more.

The desire to stay away from animal research is no longer a niche undertaking. Fortunately, it has now become the mainstream of scientific dialogue.

This is because animal-free research is no longer solely based on animal ethics and compassion—although these are important—but is now firmly based on human ethics and science.

Scientists around the world are formulating ocean change research strategies and putting them into practice. They are fully aware that a paradigm shift is imperative-not only for animals, but also for humans.

Scientists need better research because we need to understand the diseases that afflict us and our loved ones. We need human-related data to find a cure.

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For decades, animal-based research has clearly failed—and it can only fail because of difficult biological species differences.

The United Kingdom is a country that prides itself on being a scientific leader. It now finds itself at an unprecedented moment in science and history.

British scientists must grasp the opportunities before us with a keen sense of urgency. We must change our research methods and seek better treatments for human diseases.

If we fail to do this, we will be left behind as more progressive countries move forward. That’s why there are petitions now Call on the government to recognize the urgent need to use animal-free science And release a clear and ambitious action plan with timetables and milestones to promote the phasing out of animal experiments.

for For the UK to become a world leader in biomedical research, ministers must lag behind and accelerate the transition to animal-free science. If they do, it will be a victory for animals and humans all over the world.

These authors

Dr. Jarrod Bailey is the Director of Science No animal studies UKDr. Katie Taylor is dDirector of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs exist Cruelty Free International.

action

You can urge the UK government to phase out animal testing by Sign the petition.