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[spankinsparky]

I am pro animal testing for medical research!!! (Not cosmetic) However I thought vivisection was basically when animals where disected alive? So I do not see why this is still needed in medical research, how does dissecting something alive help you cure aids or cancer?

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[lulie]

w00t! Look out for Pro-Test or Laurie Pycroft in the news -- teh awesomeage. I should be going to some Pro-Tests when I get back from Canada. It'll be awesome.

Interesting question. I'll go find out and tell you of my findings.

[spankinsparky]

thankyou my dear! I'm sure i would do a protest for it, but its a good idea!

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Back with research

[lulie]

Well, for one, animal research has helped us invent the first artificial penis. Now, I dunno about you, but if I lost my penis, I'd be pretty damn happy they could make me a new one.

Other than that: in many experiments, they need alive animals. Why? Well, maybe they think they have found a cure for some terrible disease. It wouldn't work if you tried out the cure out on a dead animal.

What they might do is try giving the animal the disease, then try out their cures on it, seeing if the disease goes away or the cure has any side-effects.
Sometimes giving the animal the disease requires an operation (for example, to break a bone, or to inject some substance into an organ).

Also, some tests aren't directly about cures, but instead how the body works. For example, you might want to know how well the body works to fight a disease when it's lost a kidney.

Though note that most of these types of things are done under anaesthetic.

[evilbarbastelle]

I don't get it. They can cure x number of cancers in mice that they can not cure in humans. I fail to see how animals have any relevance to us.

[strangefrontier]

This might help to elucidate.

[spankinsparky]

aww wow!!! The things they can do this day =0 Can't believe they are giving it away for free though...

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