Amber Sipe Source 5

What advancements has animal testing made?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Volume 1245 Animal Models: Their Value in Predicting Drug Efficacy and Toxicity. Vol. 1245. New York Academy of Sciences. 1-64. Print.

This book is about animal use in experimentation and whether or not it has actually beneficial. It talks about how it would be more effective to do mechanism testing rather than testing of diseases like cancer.  This book talks a lot about what animals are currently used for, like anti-obesity, toxicology research, pluripotent stem cells, and genetic studies. Many tests have failed, some have given amazing results, but not all tests are accurate due to inducing the animals into a certain state. It talks about how to utilize animal models, because in reality there are very few models that respond in a way that would further human research for human medical studies. One of those suggestions was mechanism testing, like how and why a disease the way it is instead of treatment and constant medicine.

This source basically tied together all the research I have been doing. It gave me insight into more detailed ways that animals help research. Most of my readings have been detailed as far as animal rights and animal welfares, but not many have been detailed in the direction of what exactly animals are used for and what they benefit. I think what they said about utilizing animal research so that it accurately responds to experimentation would further benefit humans and cause less animal tests needed. This source answers my blog post question.

This source does a good job of going into great details about the things I have been reading about in the four other sources. The 3 R’s, the experiments, and the way people are working in the direction of making it better and more productive have all been described in great detail, something the other sources scratched the surface of.

This source wrapped up my research in a very good way and led me to believe that my research question has been answered. I think it has answered all of my questions and now I am more prepared to write my essay with all the sources I have.