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... chemist Louis Pastiur studied infectious diseases in animals and found that these diseases derived from external microorganisms. Pastiur proved through these experiments that a vaccine to prevent these diseases could be produced. It's breakthroughs like this that have people believing that animal research is necessary. I believe that this is not the case. Despite years of animal research, diseases such as cancer has provided no cure.Many of our medical discoveries such ad antibiotics, CAT scans, aspirin, and anesthetics have Using Animals in Research 3 been developed from nonanimal experiments. Nonanimal experiments include automated devices, computers, test tube cultures of cell and tissue cultures, physio-chemical studies, behavioral studies and postmortem studies on humans. Use of these types of experiments have proved beneficial not only to humans but also to animals. For example the limes test, a test to see if a substance is carcinogenic, uses a micro-organism culture. This ...
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