If a drug passes the animal test it's then tested on a small human group before large scale clinical trials. The pharmacologist William D H Carey demonstrated the importance of animal testing in a ...
The screening system, which has until now been used primarily to identify beneficial compounds for drug discovery ... enables in vitro testing of human and animal cells in massive quantities.
Research from Purdue University in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveals that, thanks to a new computational tool, a cancer drug dismissed by traditional testing ...
Effectiveness This is also known as efficacy, and checks how well the drug cures the disease, or improves symptoms. Dosage This varies, and has to closely controlled, as too high a concentration ...
Two mice, both the same age, the one on the left has aged normally, but the one on the right has been given an anti-ageing drug. A drug has increased the lifespans of laboratory animals by nearly ...