Animal Experimentation | Animal Testing Is Becoming More Humane
Erik Stokstad is the managing editor of ScienceNOW, Science magazine’s online news service.
Many new technologies are being developed that are making animal testing more humane and reliable. Historically, scientists would anesthetize animals in order to provide test drugs orally and then monitor the animal’s bodily functions. Sometimes scientists would infect mice with a disease, give them antibiotics, and then kill two mice every two hours to evaluate the medicine’s effects. Now new sensors and monitors can be implanted in an animal to transmit data....
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