Posted on 08/30/2015 12:39:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A partnership between scientists at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a German research institute may have found the solution to make animal experiments a thing of the past.
Animal testing has been condemned for being cruel and morally dubious, but in recent years it also has been understood that such tests fail to predict human responses to drugs, and as regulations tighten massive investment has been turned to the field of alternative testing.
Hebrew University announced on Monday that its cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI-BB) in Germany has borne breakthrough results, and together the two have submitted a joint provisional patent application and are looking for industrial partners to implement their findings.
The Israeli and German researchers have developed a “liver-on-chip” device mimicking human physiology, so as to avoid animal experiments and get around the limitations of testing on human cells that survive just a few days outside the body. …
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
But in this country it's quite alright to murder human babies and use their body parts for medical experimentation.
Not for either... glad they may have a solution to animal testing.
Gosh, none of our academics can use it because they’re all boycotting Israel over being such meanies to the wonderful, diversity-minded Palestinians.
Stupid Israelis, don’t they know the solution is to burn down laboratories? /s
Another medical research breakthrough that will help mankind.
How dare they!?
Except by the few people who've been saved...and *know* they've been saved...by medicines and treatments that have been developed by conducting animal testing.
Jews are truly a race of geniuses. Thus, we must kill them. < /Islam>
excellent, kudos for the Israeli scientists!!
HOPEFULLY this will also put an end to Obama/Pelosi/etc policies of using our tax money to pay for the murder and carving up of innocent little babies “for research purposes” (for such important applications as improving the formulae of cosmetic skin creams and, allegedly, dog food)
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“Another medical research breakthrough that will help mankind.”
Yeah, and this is on top of that huge Israeli HIV treatment discovery.
That could all change when this new product goes to full market.
.....And yet they LOSE, the Islamofacists.
But give thumbs up to the Israelis.
Somehow it seems distinctly possible to me that research done using this new invention won't be as effective...as reliable...as old fashioned testing.
Give the Israelis a LOT of credit, they are in front with this new product and it can do just as much if not better than what was done before.
Well, the notion that it could soon replace animal testing is probably something added by the mediot that wrote the piece.
....Or it shows how tech-savy the Israelis are.
How do we know that?
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