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 There are literally hundreds of examples of cutting-edge, highly efficient biomedical research tools that do not use animals.
Exciting new biotech companies like The Hurel Corporation, and Asterand have emerged which offer breakthrough technologies that are one hundred percent relevant to human medicine and unhampered by the problems that beset animal experiments.
The following is but a small sampling of non-animal technologies.
- EpiDerm©, EpiOral© and EpiOcular© developed by the MatTek Corporation are all bio-engineered versions of skin, oral and eye tissue, enabling experiments to be carried out without immense suffering for animals.
- Human tissue banks are greatly expanding every year to provide ethically obtained tissues from volunteers that can be used effectively in drug development and other treatments. For example, cell culture work with HIV has revealed how the virus replicates in humans and led to the development of effective drugs to combat AIDS in humans.
- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) enables the non-invasive study of the human brain to facilitate research into vision, hearing, brain injury and neurological illness. Coupled with other scans, such as MRI and CAT scans, these methods can eliminate experiments conducted on cats and monkeys in which recording electrodes are bolted into their skulls.
- DNA microarrays are a powerful technology that allow scientists to examine the activities of thousands of genes, aiding drug development and helping medical researchers learn more about heart disease and cancer.
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