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Learning About Human Illnesses Does Not Require Animals

From CAARE Citizens for Alternatives to Animal Research
February 2023

We do not need to torment animals to study human illnesses, and in fact, animal research will always be fundamentally flawed when applied to the human system.

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For decades animals have been used in learning experiments. Typically these involve a chamber that trains mice, rats or pigeons to press a lever and receive either a reward like a sip of fluid or a punishment, like a shock. But we don’t need animals to study learning and in fact, these artificially constructed environments shed little light on human learning. The first article describes how scientists used non-invasive EEG to impact the learning process in human volunteers.

Another common area of animal experiments involves studying human smoking and tobacco use. Incredibly these experiments still continue, even though it’s widely known that smoking is harmful. Scientists are still subjecting animals to smoke and nicotine, claiming to understand how we can help smokers quit. The second article describes an experiment that uses machine learning to discover existing medications that may help.

The articles we highlight each week are not necessarily endorsed by CAARE as examples of outstanding research, although some are, but they are posted here to demonstrate how we don’t need to torment animals to study these topics, and in fact, animal research will always be fundamentally flawed when applied to the human system.

More breakthroughs for humans without using animals include:

  • Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults, study finds
  • Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit
  • Predicting two common heart conditions
  • New collection of human brain atlases that chart postnatal development
  • Artificial human skin paves the way to new skin cancer therapy

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