Animal Rights What Are the Alternatives to Animal Testing?

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since the last nugget on how animal testing kills humans, i’ve had several inquiries about what viable alternatives are. animal testing isn’t just dangerous for humans, completely ineffective in creating any scientifically viable results, and totally driven by greed, but it’s also not the only option.

alternatives to animal testing include sophisticated tests using human cells and tissues (also known as in vitro methods), advanced computer-modeling techniques (often referred to as in silico models), and studies with human volunteers.

these and other non-animal methods are not hindered by species differences that make applying animal test results to humans difficult or impossible, and they usually take less time and money to complete.

RESOURCES:
John Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing: http://caat.jhsph.edu
Other Centers for Alternatives: Resources - Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
Great FAQ: FAQs - Resources - Altweb: Alternatives to Animal Testing - Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Harvard’s Wyss Institute Organs on Chips Info: http://wyss.harvard.edu/search?q=org...&searchSubmit=
And Organs-on-Chips : Wyss Institute at Harvard
Royal Society of Chemistry’s “Lab on a Chip” Journal: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journa...rther_news.asp
Artery On A Chip Article Shown: Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 2341 DOI: 10.1039/c004675b
Artery On A Chip Video Shown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATwEGKlHwK8
Wyss Institute Organ On A Chip Footage: http://money.cnn.com/video/technolog...l?iid=V_Series
Gut On A Chip Article Shown: Integr Biol (Camb). 2013 Sep;5(9):1130-40. doi: 10.1039/c3ib40126j.
CeeTox Skin Irritation Test Info: Skin Irritation Test - CeeTox
EpiDerm Data Sheet: Data Sheet | MatTek Corporation
European Union Reference Library for alternatives to animal testing: European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM) — Institute for Health and Consumer Protection – (JRC-IHCP), European Commission
In Silico Articles: In silico pharmacology for drug discovery: methods for virtual ligand screening and profiling
In silico methods to predict drug toxicity. [Curr Opin Pharmacol. 2013] - PubMed - NCBI

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