voice your arguement

should animals(such as rats or rabbits) be used for researches in scientific experiments? why/why not
what are the drawbacks of your argument?
is there any alternative method to substitute them in research?

Reply 1

iLoveRodents

14

Is this for a piece of homework/coursework?

You may find these links a starting point for why animals are used in research, and how their welfare is ensured:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/experiments_1.shtml
- https://med.stanford.edu/animalresearch/why-animal-research.html
- https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/application/files/5916/5226/6815/Why_are_animals_used_in_scientific_research.pdf

The RSPCA also have a great page listing alternatives to animals in research:
- https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/laboratory/replacinganimals
(Organ-on-a-chip is perhaps the most recent advancement, and one of the more exciting to me)

Hopefully this helps - but if you need anymore help, I'm happy to try :smile:

(I'm a final year biomedical science student)

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Saeed23

OP

16

Original post by iLoveRodents

Is this for a piece of homework/coursework?

You may find these links a starting point for why animals are used in research, and how their welfare is ensured:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/experiments_1.shtml
- https://med.stanford.edu/animalresearch/why-animal-research.html
- https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/application/files/5916/5226/6815/Why_are_animals_used_in_scientific_research.pdf

The RSPCA also have a great page listing alternatives to animals in research:
- https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/laboratory/replacinganimals
(Organ-on-a-chip is perhaps the most recent advancement, and one of the more exciting to me)

Hopefully this helps - but if you need anymore help, I'm happy to try :smile:

(I'm a final year biomedical science student)

thanks a lott fo ryour help...btw,did you give bio for A-Levels?what grade did you get(if u did)?

Reply 3

ANeRd

12

Original post by Saeed23

should animals(such as rats or rabbits) be used for researches in scientific experiments? why/why not
what are the drawbacks of your argument?
is there any alternative method to substitute them in research?

Hey,
Our year group went on a trip to UCL ,where we had a session on cell and developmental biology.
The link below isn't about the commonly used rats or mice for monoclonal antibodies,but ZebraFish,
(We share more than 70% of DNA with Zebra Fish.)
http://zebrafishucl.org/

UCL has many research groups ,that use zebra fish to research social behviour to embryonic development.

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