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Does animal research work?
The combined weight of many different kinds of evidence from medical and scientific history shows that animal research has played a crucial role in basic and applied research, and in the development and testing of new therapies. It is often useful to look at the role of animals in many examples from history and ask whether the same progress could have been made any other way. There are many examples on this website.
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- Research on malaria
- The physiology of digestion
- The role played by protozoa in causing disease
- Discoveries relating to immunity
- Germ Theory of Disease
- Transplant surgery first performed on a human
- Malaria-parasite's life-cycle discovered
- Diphtheria prevented by immunisation
- Penicillin protects mice against infection
- The structure of the nervous system
- Vaccine development
- Transmission and treatment of tuberculosis
- Heparin used as an anticoagulant
- Cell chemistry and the contents of the nucleus
- Dialysis developed for kidney failure
- Capillary motor regulation
- Polio vaccine developed
- Blood transfusion
- Mice & genetics
- The electrocardiogram
- Serum therapy, especially in its application against diphtheria.
- The discovery of neurotransmitters
- The discovery of insulin
- Artificial heart valves
- Metabolism and the production of heat in muscles
- Cloning Dolly the sheep
- Neurotransmission demonstrated
- Heart transplants successful in humans
- Hib-meningitis vaccine
- Cardiac pacemakers
- Insulin isolated
- A guinea pig's history of biology
- Suture of blood vessels
- Vitamin A discovered
- Leprosy treatments developed
- Immunity in infectious diseases
- Discovery of anaphylaxis
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