Some people argue that all experimentation on animals is bad and should be outlawed. However, others believe that important scientific discoveries can be made from animal experiments. Can experimentation on animals be justified? Are there any alternatives?

Nowadays, there is an argument about whether all experiments conducted on animals should be banned or not. Some people say that some studies need real animals to produce a breakthrough in science.

Also

, the rising trend of simulations is significant and one day simulations can be the main part of the research.

Firstly

, there are several pharmaceutical studies that solely depend on the use of animals to test new drugs. Some researchers said that the results obtained from animals are more accurate than making calculations, especially the effects of injected substances.

For example

, the results of levels of hormones and chemicals in rodents' blood vessels after testing a new stimulating drug are more consistent and the number is close to results in human trials. Because of the importance of accurate results, it is reasonable that some experimentation

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real living things is acceptable and relevant.

Secondly

, despite the advantage of giving accurate measurements, having living things as part of the laboratory is expensive. As most research institutes want to reduce the cost of conducting experiments as much as possible, the new approach has been developed. Programmers have joined the force of the research team and created several virtual laboratories.

For instance

, one experiment of testing new drugs on a pig heart only used one pig heart to help the programmer to have a clearer picture of the heart anatomy.

Then

, scientists tested new drugs as many times as they wanted without buying a pack of pig hearts. Many people have speculated that in the future, half of the experiment would be done

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computers.

Lastly

,

although

there are several laboratory techniques that require real animals to get a good result, the popularity of virtual laboratories is growing these days. In conclusion, it is possible that most unnecessary experiments using rodents or pigs will be minimised and conducted in simulators

instead

.