Hobbies And Interests
Organ Analysis
Many scientists might claim that animal testing allows them to see how different medications and chemicals influence organs. However, scientists have developed tissue grown in beakers or glass cultures that directly mimic organ tissue such as human livers. Scientists can apply the drug or chemical directly on these tissues to see how the organ tissue responds. This would help scientists see the effectiveness of chemicals and drugs without using animals.
Skin Tissue Growth
Scientists use many animals as test subjects to see how skin reacts to certain conditions. This may include cosmetic experiments or seeing how well skin reacts to burns. However, scientists can grow human skin cells within a contained environment, like a tissue culture. Scientists can then give these cells cosmetic tests ranging from beauty products to skin cancer medication to see the medical effects.
Brain Imaging and Scanning
Before MRIs or CT scans, any brain analysis that could prove fruitful required dissecting an animal's brain, sometimes when the animal was alive. However, a more humane way to use animals without inflicting harm on them is to pass them through brain imaging and scanning technology. This technology is usually more accurate than physically dissecting the brain and will not harm or kill the animals. The results are fruitful as well, such as studies concerning brain chemistry, showing the effects of chemicals on the brain and showing how psychological or physiological ailments like cancer show up in the brains of animals.
Human Models
The "Journal of the American Medical Association," the "British Medical Journal" and government organizations such as the United States Food and Drug Administration state that any results from an animal test are not applicable for humans. Most drugs or medical experiments performed on animals do not show similar results when done on humans due to the vast physiological differences between humans and all animals, including close relatives like apes. Instead, research that utilizes the human genome and computer system mapping of the human body can effectively lead to an understanding of human physiology in terms of health, without wasting time experimenting on animals.