Drug development is a slow process involving years, even decades, of research and animal models have always been integral to this work. But progress in translating animal work into human benefits has been uncertain.
A recent article published on this site considered this alongside technological advances and asked whether research on animals is now irrelevant. And, if so, why we persist in using them. I will be providing a counter argument to the article, which concludes we should stop using animals in research.
