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  • vcf3 replied to the topic Ethics of Animal Testing in the forum Pre-clinical Device Development 7 years, 2 months ago

    Although I believe animal testing is clearly unethical, I do find the efficacy of their results extremely valuable. Animal testing has been the most accurate and reliable strategy for checking new drugs, with few limitations or side effects due to animals and humans. Alternative models, computer simulation, have emerged as a mean to both minimalize the use of animal and increase the accuracy of results. So far, the University of Oxford’s Department of Computer Science has been quite successful in demonstrating the advantage of computational models over animal testing in assessing the adversity effect of drugs used for heart defect such as arrhythmias. Animal testing had an accuracy rate of around (75% to 85%), while “virtual model performed better with a rate around (89-96%). This result implies that maybe someday computational models would be the standard model for laboratories investigation. However, that future remains pretty distinct, and even I don’t believe animal testing would be complete eradicated.