Thursday, February 14, 2008

Human Cells Could Replace Animals in Toxic Testing

This article states that scientists will try to develop and research a way to test new drugs on cultured human cells which could drastically reduce live animal testing. Other than that, this new found process could cut costs, and improve testing accuracy. As of now, US National Institute of Health and the US Environmental Protection Agency have reached an agreement to fund and develop a new way to test toxic chemicals on human cells rather than animals.

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