Jen’s Story
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at
6:38 pm
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A heart-warming story about a scientist, breast cancer and her fight to find a cure through animal research. … www.ResearchSaves.org
Tagged with: Animal Research • Heart Warming Story • Jen
Filed under: Breast Cancer
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Daniellefilm – you seem to have failed to publish quotes of the rest of the team: Other scientists at Oxford several years later followed up and successfully tried on mice and stated: “Mice were tried in the initial toxicity tests because of their small size, but what a lucky chance it was, for in this respect man is like the mouse and not the guinea pig.” Picking the appropriate animal model is essential. But failure to test in any animals would have kept it from being used at all
You go, Jen!
Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and manufacturing penicillin, stated: ‘How fortunate we didn’t have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realized’.
Okay, feedback is great. A constructive dialogue is great. But crazy ramblings and rantings and personal attacks, don’t help anybody, so we’re now officially going on moderated comments.
Oskypuss…Animal data is used to provide the FDA and the IRBs with the information that they need to test the compound on humans. If the compound is neither safe nor efficacious in the human trials, it does not go to the next step. Saying animal testing does not work makes no sense since the test must be done in humans before the product goes on the market. That’s true for computer models, in vitro human cell cultures… Toxicogenomics and microdosing is part of the human testing process.
Seriously Oskypuss, you should at least try to get close to the facts before you post them. First, even if only 5% of cancer drugs got to market..that would still save millions of lives. And by “marginal life extenstion”…do you mean 1 to 20 years? How would an entire industry last this long in the face of pressure from morons if there was not value behind the science?
I personally work with these animals on a daily basis, being a Lab Animal Technologist. These animals are extremely well cared for and researchers have to follow proper guidelines for care & use. Would you rather the drug companies skip this step which decides how potent a drug is & how often you should take the drug for it to be effective. Murine & human cell lines are different thats y companies study human cell lines in mice or rats. I have also lost family to this cruel disease my mom.
my grandmother was a survivor. keep up the great work!
Great video! I support it, support FBR.
Yea, for biomedical research!
You are so fortunate, not everyone has a job that produces good things!
What a great video!! Perfectly concise and displays a positive aspect of animal research
Lovw it. Great vid.
Thank you for your words of inspiration !! We will keep you and your loved ones in our prayers & support Bio Medical Research always. God Bless you & all your co-workers. And, again THANK YOU !!!
I Agree!! Support Bio Medical Reasearch
FBR… wow…. I never knew…
But there you go – save the rodent or save the person?
love it! animal research DOES save lives.