By Andre Menache, Scientific Advisor to Progressive Non-animal Research Society. The Coronavirus pandemic called COVID-19 is an important opportunity to reassess the way we do medical research. Faced with this viral tsunami, scientists have not had time to find one or more animal species to serve as a ‘model’ to study this disease in theContinue reading “Animal Testing and COVID-19”
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Use of animal models a primitive outdated approach – all about money
By Pradmin Basu. It is understandable that ‘scientists’ who use animals for their research are busy requesting grants for their ‘mouse bill’. My father, Dr. Prasanta Kumar Basu, did the same thing for years at the university of Toronto where he was director of research in dept of ophthalmology. This is a money game andContinue reading “Use of animal models a primitive outdated approach – all about money”