Huntingdon Life Sciences Animal Testing: one step ahead
Animal testing – whether you like it or not is necessary. And why it is necessary? There are multiple factors which makes it compulsory to use animals for research. Suppose a pharmaceutical company comes up with a drug that it claims to be a major breakthrough. The only way to test this claim is to use this drug on animals to check the efficacy and at the same time whether drug is safe to use. Subsequently, if the drug has good efficacy it needs to be seen whether drug affects vital organs of the body heart or say kidneys. These are the factors that forces pharmaceutical companies to use animals as surrogates. However, that doesn’t mean animals should be taken for granted. This is where Huntingdon Life Sciences Animal Testing is different from the rest.
Huntingdon Life Sciences Animal Testing doesn’t see animal as surrogates for human but they believe animals are living entity who feel the same pain as humans do. As result, they have taken steps that minimize the trauma on animals during the research work. These include creation of cell cultures, vitro or imaging techniques.
It’s important for researcher to understand that different animals provide different results. So, the researcher needs to understand which animal is best suited for the researcher. This thing is of critical importance. Rather than trying two or three animals, you can focus on one animal that can provide researcher the best results. Suppose, the drug is for neurological disorder, the best animal for testing is cat rather than mice because the brain of cat works more like the humans. Similarly, if the drug is for cardiovascular system you need to use dog as testing animal.