RT @MauriceAtEcvam: Meet a new generation of scientists who believe in doing better science without using animals. Inspiring to be in your company, thank you for coming! JRC Summer School on Non-animal Approaches in Science @EU_ScienceHub #ecvam https://t.co/G8grZSzgkf
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ScienceHub/status/1662141548765536256
@EU_ScienceHub an interesting moral question is however : what if we made a mouse that did not suffer (like the cow in Douglas Addams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)?
At what point would we ethically be able to strip this hypothetical mouse from the special protected status that we have given vertebrates and cephalopods?
It might be a brain dead mouse, so many types of animal studies (behaviour...) would not work of course.
@EU_ScienceHub it sounds good but will only be feasible for simple questions that can be reduced to an organoid model or similar.
Many disease conditions rely on a complex interaction between different systems and organs (for example: immunity - gut - brain).
I do not think we can ever eliminate the need of lab animals. The best we can do is the 3R (reduce, replace, refine).